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Partitioning Diversity Measure for Hierarchical Beta andDirichlet ModelsDipak DeyDepartment of Statistics, University of Connecticut, USAKent HolsingerDepartment of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University ofConnecticut, USAJuan C. Vivar ∗Department of Statistical Sciences, Duke University, USABayesian approaches are widely used to capture over dispersion in binomial and multinomial datathrough beta binomial and Dirichlet multinomial model. Consequently, the same approaches also producea partition on diversity measure within and among levels in multilevel binomial and multinomialmodels. In this paper, we consider situations in which the prior distribution of a parameter vector in thedistribution of the observable binomial and multinomial data contains a hyper parameter vector, whichitself has a hyper distribution and so forth. We first develop a novel multilevel product partition resultwhich shows how the total diversity is partitioned between various hierarchical levels. Then we establishthat the gain in information decreases as one moves to higher levels of hierarchy. We also establish theconnection with the clumped multinomial data. Finally, we apply our methodology to simple multi locustwo allele genetic models to show how the diversity measure is factored into diversity between populationsand within loci. Extensions of the model to incorporate hierarchical levels with multiple alleles perlocus are also considered.Keywords: Beta binomial, Dirichlet multinomial, diversity measure.∗ Apresentador/Speaker30

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