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If $\alpha$ is a probability on $\mathbb{R}^d$ and $t>0,$ consider the Dirichlet random probability $P_t\sim\mathcal{D}(t\alpha) ;$ it is such that for any measurable partition $(A_0,\ldots,A_k)$ of $\mathbb{R}^d$ then…
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