Aggregation of the real Dirichlet distribution #
Aggregating a Dirichlet parameter vector along a surjection stays in the positive parameter domain.
Coordinate aggregation is continuous, as a linear map on a finite product.
Pushing a Dirichlet monomial forward under coordinate aggregation yields the Dirichlet monomial for the aggregated parameters. This is the moment form of the multinomial Chu–Vandermonde identity.
Dirichlet measure is closed under marginalisation or coarsening: pushing
dirichletMeasure b forward along stdSimplexAggregate f gives the Dirichlet
measure for the aggregated parameter vector.
Coordinate aggregation restated via the explicit density, unfolding
measurePreserving_stdSimplexAggregate_dirichletMeasure in terms of stdSimplexMeasure and
dirichletPdf directly rather than the bundled dirichletMeasure.