Bayesian Statistical Inference for Sampling a Finite Population
Bayesian Statistical Inference for Sampling a Finite Population
Bayesian statistical inference for sampling a finite population is studied by using the Dirichlet-multinomial process as prior. It is shown that if the finite population variables have a Dirichlet-multinomial prior, then the posterior distribution of the inobserved variables given a sample is also Dirichlet-multinomial. If the population size tends to …