Maximal Percentages in Pólya's Urn

نویسندگان

  • Ernst Schulte-Geers
  • Wolfgang Stadje
چکیده

Weshow that the supremumof the successive percentages of red balls in Pólya’s urnmodel is almost surely rational, give the set of values that are taken with positive probability, and derive several exact distributional results for the all-time maximal percentage.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • J. Applied Probability

دوره 52  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2015