Pólya-like urns and the Ewens' sampling formula

Abstract

A Markov process of partitions of the natural numbers is constructed by defining a Pólya-like urn model. The marginal distributions of this process are the Ewens' sampling distributions of population genetics.

Authors

Hoppe FM

Journal

Journal of Mathematical Biology, Vol. 20, No. 1, pp. 91–94

Publisher

Springer Nature

Publication Date

August 1, 1984

DOI

10.1007/bf00275863

ISSN

0303-6812

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Fred Hoppe

Professor Emeritus, Faculty of Science

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4901 Applied Mathematics 49 Mathematical sciences 4905 Statistics 31 Biological sciences

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