狄利克雷分布是一组连续多变量概率分布，是多变量普遍化的Β分布 。为了纪念德国数学家約翰·彼得·古斯塔夫·勒熱納·狄利克雷 （Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet）而命名。狄利克雷分布常作为贝叶斯统计的先验概率 。当狄利克雷分布维度趋向无限时，这过程便称为狄利克雷过程 （Dirichlet process）。
狄利克雷分布
概率密度函數
参数
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{\displaystyle K\geq 2}
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{\displaystyle \alpha _{1},\ldots ,\alpha _{K}}
concentration parameters ，
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{\displaystyle x_{1},\ldots ,x_{K}}
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{\displaystyle \sum _{i=1}^{K}x_{i}=1}
概率密度函数
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{\displaystyle {\frac {1}{\mathrm {B} ({\boldsymbol {\alpha }})}}\prod _{i=1}^{K}x_{i}^{\alpha _{i}-1}}
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{\displaystyle \mathrm {B} ({\boldsymbol {\alpha }})={\frac {\prod _{i=1}^{K}\Gamma (\alpha _{i})}{\Gamma {\bigl (}\sum _{i=1}^{K}\alpha _{i}{\bigr )}}}}
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{\displaystyle {\boldsymbol {\alpha }}=(\alpha _{1},\ldots ,\alpha _{K})}
期望值
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{\displaystyle \operatorname {E} [X_{i}]={\frac {\alpha _{i}}{\sum _{k}\alpha _{k}}}}
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{\displaystyle \operatorname {E} [\ln X_{i}]=\psi (\alpha _{i})-\psi (\textstyle \sum _{k}\alpha _{k})}
digamma function ) 眾數
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{\displaystyle x_{i}={\frac {\alpha _{i}-1}{\sum _{k=1}^{K}\alpha _{k}-K}},\quad \alpha _{i}>1.}
方差
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{\displaystyle \operatorname {Var} [X_{i}]={\frac {{\tilde {\alpha }}_{i}(1-{\tilde {\alpha }}_{i})}{{\bar {\alpha }}+1}},}
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{\displaystyle {\tilde {\alpha }}_{i}={\frac {\alpha _{i}}{\sum _{i=1}^{K}\alpha _{i}}}}
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{\displaystyle {\bar {\alpha }}=\sum _{i=1}^{K}\alpha _{i}}
Cov
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{\displaystyle \operatorname {Cov} [X_{i},X_{j}]={\frac {-{\tilde {\alpha }}_{i}{\tilde {\alpha }}_{j}}{{\bar {\alpha }}+1}}~~(i\neq j)}
熵
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{\displaystyle H(X)=\log \mathrm {B} (\alpha )+(\alpha _{0}-K)\psi (\alpha _{0})-\sum _{j=1}^{K}(\alpha _{j}-1)\psi (\alpha _{j})}
狄利克雷分布奠定了狄利克雷过程的基础，被广泛应用于自然语言处理 特别是主题模型 （topic model）的研究。
概率密度函数
编辑
此图展示了当K =3、参数α 从α =(0.3, 0.3, 0.3)变化到(2.0, 2.0, 2.0)时，密度函数取对数后的变化。 维度K ≥ 2的狄利克雷分布在参数α 1 , ..., α K 欧几里得空间 R K-1 勒贝格测度 有个概率密度函数，定义为：
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{\displaystyle f(x_{1},\dots ,x_{K};\alpha _{1},\dots ,\alpha _{K})={\frac {1}{\mathrm {B} (\alpha )}}\prod _{i=1}^{K}x_{i}^{\alpha _{i}-1}}
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K − 1)维的单纯形 开集 上密度为0。
归一化衡量B(α) 是多项Β函数 ，可以用Γ函数 （gamma function）表示：
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{\displaystyle \mathrm {B} (\alpha )={\frac {\prod _{i=1}^{K}\Gamma (\alpha _{i})}{\Gamma {\bigl (}\sum _{i=1}^{K}\alpha _{i}{\bigr )}}},\qquad \alpha =(\alpha _{1},\dots ,\alpha _{K}).}
![{\displaystyle \operatorname {E} [X_{i}]={\frac {\alpha _{i}}{\sum _{k}\alpha _{k}}}}](https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/fba3f45d2d1945a428884b57067ac66a7481ad10)
![{\displaystyle \operatorname {E} [\ln X_{i}]=\psi (\alpha _{i})-\psi (\textstyle \sum _{k}\alpha _{k})}](https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/af11020481980cb1aa891045a0f07ebb172ccd3d)
![{\displaystyle \operatorname {Var} [X_{i}]={\frac {{\tilde {\alpha }}_{i}(1-{\tilde {\alpha }}_{i})}{{\bar {\alpha }}+1}},}](https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/1dcbe495dc40c027cddad9a86e472c5cfe743d98)
![{\displaystyle \operatorname {Cov} [X_{i},X_{j}]={\frac {-{\tilde {\alpha }}_{i}{\tilde {\alpha }}_{j}}{{\bar {\alpha }}+1}}~~(i\neq j)}](https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/65dbd8e453a3b436c855934f7252874184badd96)
