The Poisson-Dirichlet Distribution and Related Topics: Models and Asymptotic Behaviors (Probability and Its Applications) - Hardcover

Feng, Shui

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3642111939 ISBN 13: 9783642111938

Publisher: Springer, 2010

Synopsis

Presenting a comprehensive study of the Poisson-Dirichlet distribution, this volume emphasizes recent progress in evolutionary dynamics and asymptotic behaviors. The self-contained text presents methods and techniques that appeal to researchers in a wide variety of subjects.

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About the Author

Shui Feng is a Professor of Mathematics and Statistics at McMaster University, Canada. His research is in the broad area of stochastic processes and limit theorems, with particular interests in stochastic models in population genetics, finance, and statistical physics. He is the co-editor of one book and the author of more than 30 research papers.

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The Poisson-Dirichlet distribution is an infinite dimensional probability distribution. It was introduced by Kingman over thirty years ago, and has found applications in a broad range of areas including Bayesian statistics, combinatorics, differential geometry, economics, number theory, physics, and population genetics. This monograph provides a comprehensive study of this distribution and some related topics, with particular emphasis on recent progresses in evolutionary dynamics and asymptotic behaviors. One central scheme is the unification of the Poisson-Dirichlet distribution, the urn structure, the coalescent, the evolutionary dynamics through the grand particle system of Donnelly and Kurtz. It is largely self-contained. The methods and techniques used in it appeal to researchers in a wide variety of subjects.

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3642111939
• ISBN 13: 9783642111938
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 232