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Paper #645571 has the title `A Note on the Dirichlet Process Prior in Bayesian Nonparametric Inference with Partial Exchangeability 1  
` and the abstract `Technical Report no. 297 Department of Statistics University of Washington 1 Sonia Petrone is Assistant Professor, Universita di Pavia, Dipartimento di Economia Politica e Metodi Quantitativi, I-27100 Pavia, Italy and Adrian E. Raftery is Professor of Statistics and Sociology, Department of Statistics, University of Washington, Box 354322, Seattle, WA 98195-4322. This research was supported by ONR grant no. N-00014-91-J-1074 and by grants from MURST, Rome. 
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Paper #645571 has the title `A Note on the Dirichlet Process Prior in Bayesian Nonparametric Inference with Partial Exchangeability 1  
` and the abstract `Technical Report no. 297 Department of Statistics University of Washington 1 Sonia Petrone is Assistant Professor, Universita di Pavia, Dipartimento di Economia Politica e Metodi Quantitativi, I-27100 Pavia, Italy and Adrian E. Raftery is Professor of Statistics and Sociology, Department of Statistics, University of Washington, Box 354322, Seattle, WA 98195-4322. This research was supported by ONR grant no. N-00014-91-J-1074 and by grants from MURST, Rome. 
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