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An introduction to multivariate Krawtchouk polynomials and their applications

Probability 2014-02-11 v3

Abstract

Orthogonal polynomials for the multinomial distribution m(x, p) of N balls dropped into d boxes (box i has probability p(i)) are called multivariate Krawtchouk polynomials. This paper gives an introduction to their properties, collections of natural Markov chains which they explicitly diagonalize and associated bivariate multinomial distributions.

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@article{arxiv.1309.0112,
  title  = {An introduction to multivariate Krawtchouk polynomials and their applications},
  author = {Persi Diaconis and Robert Griffiths},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1309.0112},
  year   = {2014}
}

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26 pages

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