The two-parameter Ewens distribution: a finitary approach

Journal of Economic Interaction and Coordination - Tập 2 - Trang 147-161 - 2007
U. Garibaldi1, D. Costantini2, P. Viarengo3
1IMEM-CNR, c/o Department of Physics, University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy
2Health Physics’ Laboratory, Department of Physics, University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy
3Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Naples “Federico II”, Naples, Italy

Tóm tắt

The well-known Ewens Sampling Formula has been generalized by Pitman recently. We derive some essential feature of the model without introducing notions like frequency spectrum, structure distribution or size-biased permutation invariance, that are difficult to apply to concrete finite populations. A finite model of economic interacting agents whose equilibrium aggregation state is described by the two-parameter Ewens distribution is presented. The exact marginal description of a site is derived, wherefrom birth, life and death of clusters is easy to extract; and a code for computer simulations of the life of clusters is enclosed.

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