A Refinement of the Multinomial Distribution with Application

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Abstract

A refinement of the multinomial distribution is presented where the number of inversions in the sequence of outcomes is tallied. This refinement of the multinomial distribution is its joint distribution with the number of inversions in the accompanying experiment. An application of this additional information is described in which the number of inversions acts as a proxy measure of homogeneity (or lack thereof) in the sequence of outcomes.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationApplied Mathematical Analysis and Computations I - 1st SGMC
EditorsDivine Wanduku, Shijun Zheng, Zhan Chen, Andrew Sills, Haomin Zhou, Ephraim Agyingi
PublisherSpringer
Pages225-242
Number of pages18
ISBN (Print)9783031697050
DOIs
StatePublished - 2024
Event1st Southern Georgia Mathematics Conference, SGMC 2021 - Virtual, Online
Duration: Apr 2 2021Apr 3 2021

Publication series

NameSpringer Proceedings in Mathematics and Statistics
Volume471
ISSN (Print)2194-1009
ISSN (Electronic)2194-1017

Conference

Conference1st Southern Georgia Mathematics Conference, SGMC 2021
CityVirtual, Online
Period04/2/2104/3/21

Scopus Subject Areas

  • General Mathematics

Keywords

  • 05A05
  • 60E05
  • Multinomial distribution
  • Permutation inversion statistic
  • q-multinomial theorem

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