Dirichlet Distribution: The Underlying Intuition and Python Implementation

Everything you need to know about the Dirichlet distribution

Reza Bagheri
Towards Data Science
27 min readAug 1, 2023

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The Dirichlet distribution is a generalization of the beta distribution. In Bayesian statistics, it is commonly used as the conjugate prior to the multinomial distribution, hence it can be used to model the uncertainty of a random vector…

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