most recent 30 from http://mathoverflow.net 2013-05-21T15:00:10Z http://mathoverflow.net/feeds/question/108504 http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/rdf http://mathoverflow.net/questions/108504/bayes-theorem-on-histogram tina123 2012-10-01T00:44:05Z 2012-10-01T01:15:19Z

<p>How can we apply Bayes theorem on histogram ? </p>

http://mathoverflow.net/questions/108504/bayes-theorem-on-histogram/108506#108506 R Hahn 2012-10-01T01:15:19Z 2012-10-01T01:15:19Z

<p>You may treat the histogram as observations arising from a multinomial distribution. The conjugate prior for a multinomial likelihood is a Dirichlet distribution. If you want to allow the number of bins to grow as you collect more data, this leads to a Dirichlet process prior, as I mentioned in my early comment. </p>