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Dirichlet-multinomial distribution

In probability theory and statistics, the Dirichlet-multinomial distribution is a family of discrete multivariate probability distributions on a finite support of non-negative integers. It is also called the Dirichlet compound multinomial distribution (DCM) or multivariate Pólya distribution (after George Pólya). It is a compound probability…

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CF
E ⁡ ( ∏ k = 1 K e i t k ⋅ x k ) = Γ ( α 0 ) Γ ( n + 1 ) Γ ( n + α 0 ) ⋅ D n ( α , ( e i t 1 , . . . , e i t K ) ) {\displaystyle \operatorname {E} (\prod \limits _{k=1}^{K}{e}^{…
Mean
E ⁡ ( X i ) = n α i α 0 {\displaystyle \operatorname {E} (X_{i})=n{\frac {\alpha _{i}}{\alpha _{0}}}}
MGF
E ⁡ ( ∏ k = 1 K e t k ⋅ x k ) = Γ ( α 0 ) Γ ( n + 1 ) Γ ( n + α 0 ) ⋅ D n ( α , ( e t 1 , . . . , e t K ) ) {\displaystyle \operatorname {E} (\prod \limits _{k=1}^{K}{e}^{t_{k}\…
Notation
D i r M u l t ( n , α ) {\displaystyle \mathrm {DirMult} (n,{\boldsymbol {\alpha }})}
Parameters
n ∈ { 0 , 1 , 2 , … } {\displaystyle n\in \{0,1,2,\ldots \}} number of trials α 1 , … , α K > 0 , α 0 = ∑ α k {\displaystyle \alpha _{1},\ldots ,\alpha _{K}>0,\alpha _{0}=\sum \…
PGF
E ⁡ ( ∏ k = 1 K z k x k ) = Γ ( α 0 ) Γ ( n + 1 ) Γ ( n + α 0 ) ⋅ D n ( α , z ) {\displaystyle \operatorname {E} (\prod \limits _{k=1}^{K}{z_{k}}^{x_{k}})={\frac {\Gamma (\alpha…

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related to Dirichlet-multinomial as an urn model · 6
Dirichlet-multinomial distribution → Dirichlet-multinomial, If, Polya, Specifically, The Dirichlet-multinomial, When
related to Related distributions · 5
Dirichlet-multinomial distribution → Beta-binomial, Dirichlet-multinomial, Poisson, The, The Dirichlet-multinomial
is a · 2
Dirichlet-multinomial distribution → family of discrete multivariate probability distributions on a finite support of non-negative integers, set
CF · 1
Dirichlet-multinomial distribution → E ⁡ ( ∏ k = 1 K e i t k ⋅ x k ) = Γ ( α 0 ) Γ ( n + 1 ) Γ ( n + α 0 ) ⋅ D n ( α , ( e i t 1 , . . . , e i t K ) ) {\displaystyle \operatorname {E} (\prod \limits _{k=1}^{K}{e}^{…
Mean · 1
Dirichlet-multinomial distribution → E ⁡ ( X i ) = n α i α 0 {\displaystyle \operatorname {E} (X_{i})=n{\frac {\alpha _{i}}{\alpha _{0}}}}
MGF · 1
Dirichlet-multinomial distribution → E ⁡ ( ∏ k = 1 K e t k ⋅ x k ) = Γ ( α 0 ) Γ ( n + 1 ) Γ ( n + α 0 ) ⋅ D n ( α , ( e t 1 , . . . , e t K ) ) {\displaystyle \operatorname {E} (\prod \limits _{k=1}^{K}{e}^{t_{k}\…
Notation · 1
Dirichlet-multinomial distribution → D i r M u l t ( n , α ) {\displaystyle \mathrm {DirMult} (n,{\boldsymbol {\alpha }})}
Parameters · 1
Dirichlet-multinomial distribution → n ∈ { 0 , 1 , 2 , … } {\displaystyle n\in \{0,1,2,\ldots \}} number of trials α 1 , … , α K 0 , α 0 = ∑ α k {\displaystyle \alpha _{1},\ldots ,\alpha _{K}0,\alpha _{0}=\sum \…
PGF · 1
Dirichlet-multinomial distribution → E ⁡ ( ∏ k = 1 K z k x k ) = Γ ( α 0 ) Γ ( n + 1 ) Γ ( n + α 0 ) ⋅ D n ( α , z ) {\displaystyle \operatorname {E} (\prod \limits _{k=1}^{K}{z_{k}}^{x_{k}})={\frac {\Gamma (\alpha…
PMF · 1
Dirichlet-multinomial distribution → Γ ( α 0 ) Γ ( n + 1 ) Γ ( n + α 0 ) ∏ k = 1 K Γ ( x k + α k ) Γ ( α k ) Γ ( x k + 1 ) {\displaystyle {\frac {\Gamma \left(\alpha _{0}\right)\Gamma \left(n+1\right)}{\Gamma \left…

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Dirichlet-multinomial distributionCFE ⁡ ( ∏ k = 1 K e i t k ⋅ x k ) = Γ ( α 0 ) Γ ( n + 1 ) Γ ( n + α 0 ) ⋅ D n ( α , ( e i t 1 , . . . , e i t K ) ) {\displaystyle \operatorname {E} (\prod \limits _{k=1}^{K}{e}^{…1.00infobox
Dirichlet-multinomial distributionMeanE ⁡ ( X i ) = n α i α 0 {\displaystyle \operatorname {E} (X_{i})=n{\frac {\alpha _{i}}{\alpha _{0}}}}1.00infobox
Dirichlet-multinomial distributionMGFE ⁡ ( ∏ k = 1 K e t k ⋅ x k ) = Γ ( α 0 ) Γ ( n + 1 ) Γ ( n + α 0 ) ⋅ D n ( α , ( e t 1 , . . . , e t K ) ) {\displaystyle \operatorname {E} (\prod \limits _{k=1}^{K}{e}^{t_{k}\…1.00infobox
Dirichlet-multinomial distributionNotationD i r M u l t ( n , α ) {\displaystyle \mathrm {DirMult} (n,{\boldsymbol {\alpha }})}1.00infobox
Dirichlet-multinomial distributionParametersn ∈ { 0 , 1 , 2 , … } {\displaystyle n\in \{0,1,2,\ldots \}} number of trials α 1 , … , α K > 0 , α 0 = ∑ α k {\displaystyle \alpha _{1},\ldots ,\alpha _{K}>0,\alpha _{0}=\sum \…1.00infobox
Dirichlet-multinomial distributionPGFE ⁡ ( ∏ k = 1 K z k x k ) = Γ ( α 0 ) Γ ( n + 1 ) Γ ( n + α 0 ) ⋅ D n ( α , z ) {\displaystyle \operatorname {E} (\prod \limits _{k=1}^{K}{z_{k}}^{x_{k}})={\frac {\Gamma (\alpha…1.00infobox
Dirichlet-multinomial distributionPMFΓ ( α 0 ) Γ ( n + 1 ) Γ ( n + α 0 ) ∏ k = 1 K Γ ( x k + α k ) Γ ( α k ) Γ ( x k + 1 ) {\displaystyle {\frac {\Gamma \left(\alpha _{0}\right)\Gamma \left(n+1\right)}{\Gamma \left…1.00infobox
Dirichlet-multinomial distributionSupportx i ∈ { 0 , … , n } {\displaystyle x_{i}\in \{0,\dots ,n\}} Σ x i = n , 1 ≤ i ≤ K {\displaystyle \Sigma x_{i}=n\!,1\leq i\leq K}1.00infobox
Dirichlet-multinomial distributionVarianceVar ⁡ ( X i ) = n α i α 0 ( 1 − α i α 0 ) ( n + α 0 1 + α 0 ) {\displaystyle \operatorname {Var} (X_{i})=n{\frac {\alpha _{i}}{\alpha _{0}}}\left(1-{\frac {\alpha _{i}}{\alpha _…1.00infobox
Dirichlet-multinomial distributionis afamily of discrete multivariate probability distributions on a finite support of non-negative integers0.90text
Dirichlet-multinomial distributionis aset0.90text
the one in this modelinstance ofthe same simplification would apply in a larger joint probability expression0.80text

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