A pólya urn model with a continuum of colors

Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics - Tập 45 - Trang 453-458 - 1993
Hajime Yamato1
1Department of Mathematics Faculty of Science, Kagoshima University, Kagoshima, Japan

Tóm tắt

For a Pólya urn model with a continuum of colors introduced by Blackwell and MacQueen ((1973),Ann. Statist.,2, 1152–1174), we show the joint distribution of colors aftern draws from which several properties of the urn model are derived. The similar results hold for the case where the initial distribution of colors is invariant under a finite group of transformations.

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