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A Fleming--Viot process and Bayesian nonparametrics

Stephen G. Walker, Spyridon J. Hatjispyros, Theodoros Nicoleris

math.PRarXiv:math/0702885

Abstract

This paper provides a construction of a Fleming--Viot measure valued diffusion process, for which the transition function is known, by extending recent ideas of the Gibbs sampler based Markov processes. In particular, we concentrate on the Chapman--Kolmogorov consistency conditions which allows a simple derivation of such a Fleming--Viot process, once a key and apparently new combinatorial result for Pólya-urn sequences has been established.

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