An urn model of Diaconis

D. Siegmund; B. Yakir

doi:10.1214/009117905000000314

An urn model of Diaconis

D. Siegmund^*
, B. Yakir

^*Corresponding author for this work

Department of Statistics

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Abstract

An urn model of Diaconis and some generalizations are discussed. A convergence theorem is proved that implies for Diaconis' model that the empirical distribution of balls in the urn converges with probability one to the uniform distribution.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	2036-2042
Number of pages	7
Journal	Annals of Probability
Volume	33
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1214/009117905000000314
State	Published - Sep 2005

Keywords

Almost supermartingale
Fixed point
Urn model

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