A new urn model

Journal of Applied Probability

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 964-976

  Chen, May Ru ^a   Wei, Ching Zong ^b,c  

^a NATIONAL CHANGHUA UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION   (Taiwan)

^b ACADEMIA SINICA   (Taiwan)

^c INSTITUTE OF STATISTICAL SCIENCE   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Absolute continuity for a random variable; Martingale; Symmetric polynomial; Urn model

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645342484     PISSN: 00219002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1239/jap/1134587809     Document Type: Article

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