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Enriched Pitman–Yor processes

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  • Tommaso Rigon
  • Sonia Petrone
  • Bruno Scarpa

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Bayesian non‐parametrics has evolved into a broad area encompassing flexible methods for Bayesian inference, combinatorial structures, tools for complex data reduction, and more. Discrete prior laws play an important role in these developments, and various choices are available nowadays. However, many existing priors, such as the Dirichlet process, have limitations if data require nested clustering structures. Thus, we introduce a discrete non‐parametric prior, termed the enriched Pitman–Yor process, which offers higher flexibility in modeling such elaborate partition structures. We investigate the theoretical properties of this novel prior and establish its formal connection with the enriched Dirichlet process and normalized random measures. Additionally, we present a square‐breaking representation and derive closed‐form expressions for the posterior law and associated urn schemes. Furthermore, we demonstrate that several established models, including Dirichlet processes with a spike‐and‐slab base measure and mixture of mixtures models, emerge as special instances of the enriched Pitman–Yor process, which therefore serves as a unified probabilistic framework for various Bayesian non‐parametric priors. To illustrate its practical utility, we employ the enriched Pitman–Yor process for a species‐sampling ecological problem.

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  • Tommaso Rigon & Sonia Petrone & Bruno Scarpa, 2025. "Enriched Pitman–Yor processes," Scandinavian Journal of Statistics, Danish Society for Theoretical Statistics;Finnish Statistical Society;Norwegian Statistical Association;Swedish Statistical Association, vol. 52(2), pages 631-657, June.
  • Handle: RePEc:bla:scjsta:v:52:y:2025:i:2:p:631-657
    DOI: 10.1111/sjos.12765
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