Combinatorics, Probability and Computing Pólya Urns via the Contraction Method P ´ Olya Urns via the Contraction Method
Combinatorics, Probability and Computing Pólya Urns via the Contraction Method P ´ Olya Urns via the Contraction Method
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组合学、概率和通过收缩法计算 Pólya Urns
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Margarete Knapeand
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Margarete Knape;Ralph Neininger;Margarete Knapeand
We propose an approach to analysing the asymptotic behaviour of P ´ olya urns based on the contraction method. For this, a new combinatorial discrete-time embedding of the evolution of the urn into random rooted trees is developed. A decomposition of these trees leads to a system of recursive distributional equations which capture the distributions of the numbers of balls of each colour. Ideas from the contraction method are used to study such systems of recursive distributional equations asymptotically. We apply our approach to a couple of concrete P ´ olya urns that lead to limit laws with normal limit distributions, with non-normal limit distributions and with asymptotic periodic distributional behaviour.