Prediction rules for exchangeable sequences related to species sampling

Statistics and Probability Letters

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 251-256

  Hansen, Ben ^a   Pitman, Jim ^b  

^a Department of Philosophy   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Exchangeable sequence; Prediction rule; Species sampling

Indexed keywords

EID: 0013333373     PISSN: 01677152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-7152(99)00109-1     Document Type: Article

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