Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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7548632 | Statistics & Probability Letters | 2018 | 6 Pages |
Abstract
We characterize tenable Pólya urn schemes via a decomposition of their replacement matrices into small submatrices with certain conditions on the determinants. The characterization also involves an interplay between the submatrices and the initial conditions, as well as certain divisibility conditions.
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Authors
Allison Davidson, Mark D. Ward,