Dirichlet Distribution
Catherine Scipione Forbes, Merran Evans, Nicholas Anthony John Hastings, Brian Peacock · 2010
The standard or Type I Dirichlet is a multivariate generalization of the beta distribution. This chapter discusses variate relationships of Dirichlet variate. The Dirichlet multinominal distribution is the multivariate generalization of the beta binomial distribution. It is also known as the compound multinomial distribution and, for integer parameters, the multivariate negative hypergeometric distribution. Controlled Vocabulary Terms beta distribution; binomial distribution; control variate; Dirichlet distribution; multivariate statistics