Falling Factorials, Generating Functions, and Conjoint Ranking Tables
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We investigate the coefficients generated by expressing the falling factorial (xy) as a linear combination of falling factorial products xy for l, m = 1, . . . , k. Algebraic and combinatoric properties are discussed, some in relation to Stirling numbers.
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