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most citedNotes on the occupancy problem with infinitely many boxes: general asymptotics and power laws

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Feller coupling of cycles and Poisson spacings

Joseph Najnudel, Jim Pitman

Feller (1945) provided a coupling between the counts of cycles of various sizes in a uniform random permutation of and the spacings between successes in a sequence of ind…

math.PR2019

Bounds on the probability of radically different opinions

Krzysztof Burdzy, Jim Pitman

We establish bounds on the probability that two different agents, who share an initial opinion expressed as a probability distribution on an abstract probability space, given two d…