Smoothed Dirichlet Distribution

Abstract When the cells are ordinal in the multinomial distribution, i.e., when cells have a natural ordering, guaranteeing that the borrowing information among neighboring cells makes sense conceptually. In this paper, we introduce a novel probability distribution for borrowing information among ne...

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Main Authors: Lahiru Wickramasinghe, Alexandre Leblanc, Saman Muthukumarana
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Springer 2023-09-01
Series:Journal of Statistical Theory and Applications (JSTA)
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/s44199-023-00062-8