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The papers Blackwell (1973) and Blackwell and MacQueen (1973) appeared in the same journal issue where Ferguson’s article appeared. These papers gave other ways to define a Dirichlet prior and to establish its properties.
Berk and Savage (1979) also gave an elementary proof of the result that Dirichlet processes concentrate on the collection of discrete measures.
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Sethuraman, J. (2011). Commentary on A Note on the Dirichlet Process . In: DasGupta, A. (eds) Selected Works of Debabrata Basu. Selected Works in Probability and Statistics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-5825-9_8
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