Ordered and size-biased frequencies in GEM and Gibbs' models for species sampling

DOI10.1214/17-AAP1343zbMATH Open1410.60015arXiv1704.04732OpenAlexW2964015479WikidataQ129739776 ScholiaQ129739776MaRDI QIDQ1661570FDOQ1661570

Authors: Jim Pitman, Yu. V. Yakubovich 

Publication date: 16 August 2018

Published in: The Annals of Applied Probability (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We describe the distribution of frequencies ordered by sample values in a random sample of size $n$ from the two parameter GEM$(alpha,heta)$ random discrete distribution on the positive integers. These frequencies are a $($size$-alpha)$-biased random permutation of the sample frequencies in either ranked order, or in the order of appearance of values in the sampling process. This generalizes a well known identity in distribution due to Donnelly and Tavar'e (1986) for $alpha=0$ to the case $0lealpha<1$. This description extends to sampling from Gibbs$(alpha)$ frequencies obtained by suitable conditioning of the GEM$(alpha,heta)$ model, and yields a value-ordered version of the Chinese Restaurant construction of GEM$(alpha,heta)$ and Gibbs$(alpha)$ frequencies in the more usual size-biased order of their appearance. The proofs are based on a general construction of a finite sample $(X_1,dots,X_n)$ from any random frequencies in size-biased order from the associated exchangeable random partition $P{i}_{i}nfty$ of $mathbbN$ which they generate.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1704.04732

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zbMATH Keywords

species samplingGEM distributionChinese restaurant constructionGibbs' partitionsrandom exchangeable partitionsize-biased order

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Combinatorial probability (60C05) Exchangeability for stochastic processes (60G09)

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