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arxiv: 1302.4949 · v1 · pith:CR5G7DO2new · submitted 2013-02-20 · 💻 cs.AI · cs.LG

A Characterization of the Dirichlet Distribution with Application to Learning Bayesian Networks

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We provide a new characterization of the Dirichlet distribution. This characterization implies that under assumptions made by several previous authors for learning belief networks, a Dirichlet prior on the parameters is inevitable.

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