Perpetuity property of the Dirichlet distribution

Details Perpetuity property of the Dirichlet distribution Perpetuity property of the Dirichlet distribution

2012-04-11

arxiv.org/abs/1204.2315v1

Mathematics

Probability

18 pages

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Let $X$, $B$ and $Y$ be three Dirichlet, Bernoulli and beta independent random variables such that $X\sim \mathcal{D}(a_0,...,a_d),$ such that $\Pr(B=(0,...,0,1,0,...,0))=a_i/a$ with $a=\sum_{i=0}^da_i$ and such that $Y\sim \beta(1,a).$ We prove that $X\sim X(1-Y)+BY.$ This gives the stationary distribution of a simple Markov chain on a tetrahedron. We also extend this result to the case when $B$ follows a quasi Bernoulli distribution $\mathcal{B}_k(a_0,...,a_d)$ on the tetrahedron and when $Y\sim \beta(k,a)$. We extend it even more generally to the case where $X$ is a Dirichlet process and $B$ is a quasi Bernoulli random probability. Finally the case where the integer $k$ is replaced by a positive number $c$ is considered when $a_0=...=a_d=1.$ \textsc{Keywords} \textit{Perpetuities, Dirichlet process, Ewens distribution, quasi Bernoulli laws, probabilities on a tetrahedron, $T_c$ transform, stationary distribution.} AMS classification 60J05, 60E99.

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