The coding distribution corresponding to the Dirichlet (α1,…,αm) pdf is given by q(xn)=Θ∫pθ(xn)fα1,…,αm(θ)dθ=∏j=1n(n+∑i=1mαi−j)∏i=1m∏j=1n(i∣xn)(n(i∣xn)+αi−j)where ∏j=1n(i∣xn)(n(i∣xn)+αi−j)=1 if n(i∣xn)=0.
We consider two special cases, one where αi=1 and the other when αi=21.