Random discrete distributions invariant under size-biased permutation

Advances in Applied Probability

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 525-539

  Pitman, Jim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Exchangeable random partition; Generalized dirichlet distribution; Residual allocation model

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001191605     PISSN: 00018678     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0001867800048606     Document Type: Article

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