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Recursive partition structures

Probability 2007-05-23 v2

Abstract

A class of random discrete distributions PP is introduced by means of a recursive splitting of unity. Assuming supercritical branching, we show that for partitions induced by sampling from such PP a power growth of the number of blocks is typical. Some known and some new partition structures appear when PP is induced by a Dirichlet splitting.

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@article{arxiv.math/0510305,
  title  = {Recursive partition structures},
  author = {Alexander V. Gnedin and Yuri Yakubovich},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0510305},
  year   = {2007}
}

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Published at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/009117906000000584 in the Annals of Probability (http://www.imstat.org/aop/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)