Chinese restaurant process

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词形变化

Chinese restaurant processes 复数 Chinese restaurant processes

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A discrete-time stochastic process, analogous to seating customers at tables in a restaurant, such that, at time n, the n customers have been partitioned among m ≤ n tables (or blocks of a partition). It has applications in population genetics, linguistic analysis, and image recognition.

    数学

词源

The restaurant analogy first appeared in a 1985 write-up by David Aldous, where it was attributed to Jim Pitman (who additionally credits Lester Dubins).

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