Bayesian nonparametric inference of stochastically ordered distributions, with Pólya trees and Bernstein polynomials

We introduce approaches to performing Bayesian nonparametric statistical inference for distribution functions exhibiting a stochastic ordering. We consider Polya tree prior distributions, and Bernstein polynomial prior distributions, and each prior provides an appealing and simple way of introducing the stochastic order.

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