Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/31146 
Year of Publication: 
2006
Series/Report no.: 
Discussion Paper No. 489
Publisher: 
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Sonderforschungsbereich 386 - Statistische Analyse diskreter Strukturen, München
Abstract: 
Nonparametric Predictive Inference (NPI) is a general methodology to learn from data in the absense of prior knowledge and without adding unjustified assumptions. This paper develops NPI for multinominal data where the total number of possible categories for the data is known. We present the general upper and lower probabilities and several of their properties. We also comment on differences between this NPI approach and corresponding inferences based on Walley's Imprecise Dirichlet Model.
Subjects: 
Imprecise Dirichlet Model
imprecise probabilities
interval probability
known number of categories
lower and upper probabilities
multinominal data
nonparametric predictive inference
probability wheel
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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