Some Probabilistic Aspects of Set Partitions

DOI10.2307/2974785zbMath0876.05005OpenAlexW4243955054MaRDI QIDQ3130164

Jim W. Pitman

Publication date: 28 October 1997

Published in: The American Mathematical Monthly (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2307/2974785

zbMATH Keywords

probabilityBell numberPoisson distributionset partitions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Partitions of sets (05A18) Combinatorial probability (60C05)

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