An elementary derivation of the Chinese restaurant process from Sethuraman’s stick-breaking process

Publication date: Available online 16 November 2018Source: Statistics & Probability LettersAuthor(s): Jeffrey W. MillerAbstractThe usual proof that Sethuraman’s stick-breaking process gives rise to the Chinese restaurant process is indirect, relying on abstract properties of the Dirichlet process. This note provides a direct elementary proof, without using any measure theory.
Source: Statistics and Probability Letters - Category: Statistics Source Type: research