The power and pitfalls of Dirichlet-multinomial mixture models for ecological count data
John D. O’Brien, Nicholas R. Record, Peter Countway
This paper evaluates the Dirichlet-multinomial mixture model (DMM) and its extension iDMM for ecological count data, identifying their strengths and limitations through case studies and posterior predictive distributions.
bioRxiv · Apr 20, 2016 · PreprintEcology