A martingale approach to strong convergence in a generalized Pólya-Eggenberger urn model

Raúl Gouet

Statistics & Probability Letters, 1989, vol. 8, issue 3, 225-228

Abstract: We obtain strong convergence for the proportion Wn/Tn of white balls in a generalized Pólya--Eggenberger urn scheme. We use straightforward martingale arguments that do not require moment estimations.

Keywords: urn; model; martingales; limit; theorems (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1989
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