Exact and approximate distributions for the product of Dirichlet components
Saralees Nadarajah, Samuel Kotz (2004)
Kybernetika
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It is well known that has the beta distribution when and follow the Dirichlet distribution. Linear combinations of the form have also been studied in Provost and Cheong [S. B. Provost and Y.-H. Cheong: On the distribution of linear combinations of the components of a Dirichlet random vector. Canad. J. Statist. 28 (2000)]. In this paper, we derive the exact distribution of the product (involving the Gauss hypergeometric function) and the corresponding moment properties. We also...