| ... and my, how the field has grown.
| DP priors and MDPs,
| | Random walks on Polya trees,
| | Mixture models and hierarchies,
| | | ... to smooth out the wrinkles.
| Exchangeability relations,
| | De Finetti invocations,
| | Markov fields on tesselations,
| | | ... but are they coherent?
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| Process theory flows apace,
| | Gaussian priors on function space,
| | They're popular, and have a place,
| | | ... but when did you last elicit one?
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| Model classes, old and new,
| | Dirichlet and Polya, too,
| | Gamma, Bernstein, Stacy (who?),
| | | ... but are they really different?
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| Bayesian density estimation,
| | The Bayesian bootstrap innovation,
| | And local modelling recreation,
| | | ... but what would De Finetti say?
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| Boats appear, and Bayesians board,
| | Forget the last time, priors ignored,
| | There'll be no mishaps ('til we're moored),
| | | ... but please pass the bottle.
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| Island hopping, Bayesians happy,
| | Unexpected hippy Frati,
| | Welcome to the monastery,
| | | ... but look out above!
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| Relaxation in the sun,
| | For Bayesians when the work is done,
| | Some stay 'til late but then must run,
| | | ... as dawn brings in the storm.
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| Belgirate, on the shore,
| | Non-parametric Bayes' galore,
| | And there'll be more, ancor & ancor
| | | ... in fact, we're just getting started.
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