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An integral characterization of the Dirichlet process

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Abstract

We give a new integral characterization of the Dirichlet process on a general phase space. To do so we first prove a characterization of the nonsymmetric Beta distribution via size-biased sampling. Two applications are a new characterization of the Dirichlet distribution and a marked version of a classical characterization of the Poisson-Dirichlet distribution via invariance under size-biased sampling.

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@article{arxiv.1803.11465,
  title  = {An integral characterization of the Dirichlet process},
  author = {Günter Last},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1803.11465},
  year   = {2018}
}
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