Prior Distribution in Bioinformatics
Multinominal distribution on [0,…,n−1] whose probability of i is pi. The logarithm of probability distribution can be written as:
logp(x)=log(n−1∑i=0δ(i,x)px)=n−1∑i=0δ(i,x)logpx=(1−n−1∑i=1δ(i,x))logp0+n−1∑i=1δ(i,x)logpx=n−1∑i=1δ(i,x)logpip0+logp0
Therefore, by defining
ϕ(x)=δ(i,x),θi=logpip0,ψ(θ)=−logp0=log[1+n−1∑i=1exp(θi)].
the distribution is of exponentail family:
p(x)=exp{θ⋅ϕ(x)–ψ(θ)}