A Characterization of the Dirichlet Distribution with Application to Learning Bayesian Networks
Abstract
We provide a new characterization of the Dirichlet distribution. This characterization implies that under assumptions made by several previous authors for learning belief networks, a Dirichlet prior on the parameters is inevitable.
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