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Record W4410738626 · doi:10.1002/cjs.70009

Random discrete probability measures based on a negative binomial process

2025· article· en· W4410738626 on OpenAlex
Sadegh Chegini, Mahmoud Zarepour

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Bibliographic record

VenueCanadian Journal of Statistics · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldComputer Science
TopicBayesian Methods and Mixture Models
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Ottawa
FundersNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
KeywordsNegative binomial distributionStatisticsMathematicsBinomial (polynomial)Binomial distributionEconometricsPoisson distribution

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Abstract A distinctive functional of the Poisson point process is the negative binomial process for which the increments are not independent but are independent conditional on an underlying gamma variable. Using a new point process representation for the negative binomial process, we generalize the Poisson–Kingman distribution and its corresponding random discrete probability measure. This new proposed family of discrete random probability measures, which is defined by normalizing the points of the negative binomial process, provides a new set of useful priors for Bayesian nonparametric models with more flexibility than the random discrete probability measure which are obtained by normalizing the points of a Poisson point process. We illustrate how this family of random discrete probability measures contains the nonparametric Bayesian priors such as the Dirichlet process, the normalized positive ‐stable process, the Poisson–Dirichlet process (PDP), and others. With the same gamma Lévy measure, we derive an extension of the Dirichlet process and its almost sure approximation. Using our representation for the negative binomial process, we develop a new series representation for the PDP. We demonstrate through simulations how using priors from this family can enhance the accuracy of Bayesian nonparametric hierarchical models.

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metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
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Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: Theoretical or conceptual
GenreCandidate signal: Methods · Consensus signal: Methods
Teacher disagreement score0.405
Threshold uncertainty score0.788

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Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
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Opus teacher head0.019
GPT teacher head0.267
Teacher spread0.248 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
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