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Generating random variates from a bicompositional Dirichlet distribution

Bergman, Jakob LU orcid (2009)
Abstract
A composition is a vector of positive components summing to a constant. The sample space of a composition is the simplex and the sample space of two compositions, a bicomposition, is a Cartesian product of two simplices. We present a way of generating random variates from a bicompositional Dirichlet distribution defined on the Cartesian product of two simplices using the rejection method. We derive a general solution for finding a dominating density function and a rejection constant, and also compare this solution to using a uniform dominating density function. Finally some examples of generated bicompositional random variates, with varying number of components.
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composition, Dirichlet distribution, bicompositional Dirichlet distribution, random variate generation, rejection method, simplex
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10 pages
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Department of Statistics, Lund university
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English
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  author       = {{Bergman, Jakob}},
  keywords     = {{composition; Dirichlet distribution; bicompositional Dirichlet distribution; random variate generation; rejection method; simplex}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  note         = {{Working Paper}},
  publisher    = {{Department of Statistics, Lund university}},
  title        = {{Generating random variates from a bicompositional Dirichlet distribution}},
  url          = {{https://lup.lub.lu.se/search/files/5725499/1580935.pdf}},
  year         = {{2009}},
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