We provide a general theorem bounding the error in the approximation of a random measure of interest—for example, the empirical population measure of types in a ...

Why do pollsters make such a big deal about probability sampling? You'd think that choosing people to interview should be easy. Take three of these, four of those, and two of the other. But it's not.

In this paper we consider large θ approximations for the stationary distribution of the neutral infinite alleles model as described by the the Poisson-Dirichlet distribution with parameter θ. We prove ...