Random nested tetrahedra

Advances in Applied Probability

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 619-627

  Letac, Gérard ^a   Scarsini, Marco ^b  

^a INSTITUT DE MATHÉMATIQUES DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHIETI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Barycentric coordinates; Compositional data; Dirichlet distribution; Limit distributions; Products of random matrices; Random subdivision

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001381601     PISSN: 00018678     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0001867800008508     Document Type: Article

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