On exchangeable random partitions, permutations and fragmentation trees
- 👤 Speaker: Peter McCullagh (Chicago)
- 📅 Date & Time: Tuesday 11 November 2008, 17:00 - 18:00
- 📍 Venue: Wolfson Room (MR 2) Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge
Abstract
This talk is a gentle introduction to a class of infinite random combinatorial objects, set partitions, permutations and fragmentation trees. Applications to classification and clustering will be discussed.
(Joint work with J. Yang, M. Winkel and J. Pitman)
Series This talk is part of the Kuwait Foundation Lectures series.
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Peter McCullagh (Chicago)
Tuesday 11 November 2008, 17:00-18:00