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Bernoulli Sieve

Probability 2014-10-01 v1

Abstract

Bernoulli sieve is a recursive construction of a random composition (ordered partition) of integer nn. This composition can be induced by sampling from a random discrete distribution which has frequencies equal to the sizes of component intervals of a stick-breaking interval partition of [0,1][0,1]. We exploit Markov property of the composition and its renewal representation to derive asymptotics of the moments and to prove a central limit theorem for the number of parts.

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@article{arxiv.math/0303071,
  title  = {Bernoulli Sieve},
  author = {Alexander Gnedin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0303071},
  year   = {2014}
}

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16 pages