20 Sep
2015
20 Sep
'15
10:13 a.m.
Would anyone please be so kind as to say what the Polya urn model is? (Not Jim, because he obviously doesn't want to bother.) —Dan
On Sep 20, 2015, at 4:35 AM, James Propp <jamespropp@gmail.com> wrote:
Does anyone have a pointer to the cute way of seeing that the Polya urn model gives rise to the uniform distribution at the nth level, by contriving a uniformly random permutation of 1,2,...,n whose first (or last) element corresponds to the number of white-vs.-black balls at the end?