On the number of collisions in beta(2, b)-coalescents

Bernoulli

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 829-845

  Iksanov, Alex ^a   Marynych, Alex ^a   Möhle, Martin ^b  

^a TARAS SHEVCHENKO NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF KYIV   (Ukraine)

^b HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Asymptotics of moments; Beta coalescent; Number of collisions; Random regenerative composition; Recursion with random indices

Indexed keywords

EID: 72549092905     PISSN: 13507265     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3150/09-BEJ192     Document Type: Article

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