On a Rapid Simulation of the Dirichlet Process
Mahmoud Zarepour, Luai Al Labadi · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2011
We describe a simple and efficient procedure for approximating the Lévy measure of a $\text{Gamma}(α,1)$ random variable. We use this approximation to derive a finite sum-representation that converges almost surely to Ferguson's representation of the Dirichlet process based on arrivals of a homogeneous Poisson process. We compare the efficiency of our approximation to several other well known approximations of the Dirichlet process and demonstrate a substantial improvement.