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Multivariate Dirichlet Moments and a Polychromatic Ewens Sampling Formula

Probability 2023-09-21 v1 Combinatorics

Abstract

We present an elementary non-recursive formula for the multivariate moments of the Dirichlet distribution on the standard simplex, in terms of the pattern inventory of the moments' exponents. We obtain analog formulas for the multivariate moments of the Dirichlet-Ferguson and Gamma measures. We further introduce a polychromatic analogue of Ewens sampling formula on colored integer partitions, discuss its relation with suitable extensions of Hoppe's urn model and of the Chinese restaurant process, and prove that it satisfies an adapted notion of consistency in the sense of Kingman.

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@article{arxiv.2309.11292,
  title  = {Multivariate Dirichlet Moments and a Polychromatic Ewens Sampling Formula},
  author = {Lorenzo Dello Schiavo and Filippo Quattrocchi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2309.11292},
  year   = {2023}
}

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22 pages

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