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On a novel exact representation of species sampling processes

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January 14, 2026
Abstract
We revisit species sampling priors from a computational perspective and show that they can be treated through simple representations that retain their full predictive structure. This enables posterior inference with off-the-shelf algorithms, yielding straightforward MCMC implementations and accessible expressions for predictive laws and partition distributions, without resorting to ad hoc numerical approximations.
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