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Discussion of paper “nonparametric Bayesian inference in applications” by Peter Müller, Fernando A. Quintana and Garritt L. Page

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This is an invited discussion of review paper “Nonparametric Bayesian Inference in Applications” by Peter Müller, Fernando A. Quintana and Garritt L. Page.

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Correspondence to Athanasios Kottas.

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The author wishes to thank Igor Prünster and the editors Tommaso Proietti and Ruggero Bellio for the invitation to write this discussion. This work was supported in part by the National Science Foundation under award SES-1631963.

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Kottas, A. Discussion of paper “nonparametric Bayesian inference in applications” by Peter Müller, Fernando A. Quintana and Garritt L. Page. Stat Methods Appl 27, 219–225 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10260-017-0398-7

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