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Communications in Statistics - Simulation and Computation Volume 20, 1991 - Issue 2-3
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Small sample properties of parameter estimation in the dirichlet distribution

A. Narayanan Decision and Information Systems Department, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, 47405
Pages 647-666 | Received 01 Feb 1990, Published online: 27 Jun 2007

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