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Abstract
We wish to make inferences about the conditional probabilities p(y/x), many of which are zero, when the distribution of X is unknown and one observes only a multinomial sample of the Y variates. To do this, fixed likelihood ratio models and quasi-incremental distributions are defined. It is shown that quasi-incremental distributions are intimately linked to decomposable graphs and that these graphs can guide us to transformations of X and Y which admit a conjugate Bayesian analysis on a reparametrization of the conditional probabilities of interest.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled keywords: | Bayesian probability estimation; constraint graph; contingency tables; decomposable graph; generalized Dirichlet distributions; separation of likelihood |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HA Statistics |
| Divisions: | Faculties > Science Technology and Medical Studies > School of Mathematics Statistics and Actuarial Science > Statistics |
| Depositing User: | P. Ogbuji |
| Date Deposited: | 27 May 2009 08:05 |
| Last Modified: | 17 Jul 2012 10:20 |
| Resource URI: | http://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/18509 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes) |
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