Fisher-Rao geometry of Dirichlet distributions

05/12/2020
by   Alice Le Brigant, et al.
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In this paper, we study the geometry induced by the Fisher-Rao metric on the parameter space of Dirichlet distributions. We show that this space is geodesically complete and has everywhere negative sectional curvature. An important consequence of this negative curvature for applications is that the Fréchet mean of a set of Dirichlet distributions is uniquely defined in this geometry.

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