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A Bicompositional Dirichlet Distribution

Bergman, Jakob LU orcid (2009)
Abstract
The Simplex S^D is the sample space of a D-part composition. There are only a few distributions defined on the Simplex and even fewer defined on the Cartesian product S^D x S^D. Based on the Dirichlet distribution, defined on S^D, we propose a new bicompositional Dirichlet distribution defined on S^D x S^D, and examine some of its properties, such as moments as well as marginal and conditional distributions. The proposed distribution allows for modelling of covariation between compositions without leaving S^D x S^D.
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Dirichlet distribution, Cartesian product, compositional data, Simplex
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Department of Statistics, Lund university
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English
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  author       = {{Bergman, Jakob}},
  keywords     = {{Dirichlet distribution; Cartesian product; compositional data; Simplex}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  note         = {{Working Paper}},
  publisher    = {{Department of Statistics, Lund university}},
  title        = {{A Bicompositional Dirichlet Distribution}},
  url          = {{https://lup.lub.lu.se/search/files/5942517/1515005.pdf}},
  year         = {{2009}},
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