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A Central Limit Theorem and its Applications to Multicolor Randomly Reinforced Urns

Probability 2009-04-27 v2 Statistics Theory Statistics Theory

Abstract

We give a central limit theorem, which has applications to Bayesian statistics and urn problems. The latter are investigated, by paying special attention to multicolor randomly reinforced generalized Polya urns.

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@article{arxiv.0904.0932,
  title  = {A Central Limit Theorem and its Applications to Multicolor Randomly Reinforced Urns},
  author = {Patrizia Berti and Irene Crimaldi and Luca Pratelli and Pietro Rigo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0904.0932},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

18 pages, preprint, second version, date first version: April 6, 2009. We have just corrected some details in remark 8 (i.e. the old remark 9) and in subsection 4.4