Gaussian limits associated with the poisson-dirichlet distribution and the Ewens sampling formula

Annals of Applied Probability

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 101-124

  Joyce, Paul ^a   Krone, Stephen M ^a   Kurtz, Thomas G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Ewens sampling formula; Gaussian process; GEM; Mutation rate; Neutral infinite alleles model; Poisson Dirichlet; Sampling distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036116141     PISSN: 10505164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/aoap/1015961157     Document Type: Article

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