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Generating random variates from a bicompositional Dirichlet distribution

Bergman, Jakob LU orcid (2012) In Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation 82(6). p.797-805
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, are presented.
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Bicompositional Dirichlet distribution, Composition, Dirichlet distribution, Random variate generation, Rejection method, Simplex
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Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation
volume
82
issue
6
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797 - 805
publisher
Taylor & Francis
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  • wos:000304272800002
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1563-5163
DOI
10.1080/00949655.2011.558088
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English
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