Talk:Chinese restaurant process

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[edit] article needs discussion of meaning of this distribution

doesnt it :) Anlace 21:41, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] What is the application of this formula?

How, or in what circumstances, is it useful? --80.41.36.60 13:54, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

That it is relevant to the Ewens sampling formula is stated explicitly in the article. Therefore I was surprised by the question above. But now I've made it more explicit by adding a link to population genetics. Michael Hardy 15:01, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] notation

is the notation inconsistent? for example: n_k is the number of elements in the n-th block... but... |b| is also the number of elements in a block. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 143.215.146.218 (talk • contribs)