Invariant expectation values in the sampling of discrete frequency distributions

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSA.2013.09.056MaRDI QIDQ1782512zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors P. Rossi

Publication date 20 September 2018

Published in Physica A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1305.0397

zbMATH Keywords

Ewens formulafrequency distributionsnegative binomial distributionssamplingscaling

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Combinatorial probability (60C05) Sampling theory, sample surveys (62D05) Population dynamics (general) (92D25)

Abstract: The general relationship between an arbitrary frequency distribution and the expectation value of the frequency distributions of its samples is discussed. A wide set of measurable quantities ("invariant moments") whose expectation value does not in general depend on the size of the sample is constructed and illustrated by applying the results to Ewens sampling formula. Invariant moments are especially useful in the sampling of systems characterized by the absence of an intrinsic scale. Distribution functions that may parametrize the samples of scale-free distributions are considered and their invariant expectation values are computed. The conditions under which the scaling limit of such distributions may exist are described.

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