Urn schemes and reinforced random walks.

DOI10.1016/S0304-4149(99)00119-2zbMath1045.62006MaRDI QIDQ1877504

Piercesare Secchi, Stephen G. Walker, Pietro Muliere

Publication date: 7 September 2004

Published in: Stochastic Processes and their Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

reinforced random walksBayesian nonparametricsurn schemesmixture of Markov chains

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Bayesian inference (62F15) Bayesian problems; characterization of Bayes procedures (62C10) Parametric inference (62F99) Sums of independent random variables; random walks (60G50) Nonparametric inference (62G99)

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