Strong convergence of proportions in a multicolor Pólya urn

Journal of Applied Probability

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 426-435

  Gouet, Raúl ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

Limit theorems; Martingales; Urn model

Indexed keywords

CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATRIX ALGEBRA;

LIMIT THEOREMS; MARTINGALES; MULTICOLOR POLYA URN;

PROBABILITY;

EID: 0031384226     PISSN: 00219002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0021900200101068     Document Type: Article

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