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... , whose origins in population genetics were descnbed above, plays a central role in approximating the probabilistic structure of a class of combinatorial models. This brief account follows Arratia and Tavare (1994)
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... The next ingredient in our story is the observation that the law in (5.24) can be represented as the joint law of independent Poisson random variables Z~'Z2~...'Zn ~ having ErZj]
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... Three equivalent definitions of the total variation distance dab (n) between (the law ok Cb and (the law OF Zb are given below: fib (n)
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  • population genetics
  • ewens sampling
  • sampling formula
  • probabilistic structure
  • total variation

  • independent poisson
  • random variables
  • random variable
  • poisson random
  • variation distance


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