Random Discrete Distributions Derived From Self-Similar Random Sets (1996)
| Venue: | Electronic J. Probability |
| Citations: | 13 - 10 self |
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@ARTICLE{Pitman96randomdiscrete,
author = {Jim Pitman and Marc Yor},
title = {Random Discrete Distributions Derived From Self-Similar Random Sets},
journal = {Electronic J. Probability},
year = {1996},
volume = {1},
pages = {1--28}
}
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Abstract
: A model is proposed for a decreasing sequence of random variables (V 1 ; V 2 ; \Delta \Delta \Delta) with P n V n = 1, which generalizes the Poisson-Dirichlet distribution and the distribution of ranked lengths of excursions of a Brownian motion or recurrent Bessel process. Let V n be the length of the nth longest component interval of [0; 1]nZ, where Z is an a.s. non-empty random closed of (0; 1) of Lebesgue measure 0, and Z is self-similar, i.e. cZ has the same distribution as Z for every c ? 0. Then for 0 a ! b 1 the expected number of n's such that V n 2 (a; b) equals R b a v \Gamma1 F (dv) where the structural distribution F is identical to the distribution of 1 \Gamma sup(Z " [0; 1]). Then F (dv) = f(v)dv where (1 \Gamma v)f(v) is a decreasing function of v, and every such probability distribution F on [0; 1] can arise from this construction. Keywords: interval partition, zero set, excursion lengths, regenerative set, structural distribution. AMS subject classificat...
