"Chinese restaurant process" meaning in All languages combined

See Chinese restaurant process on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: Chinese restaurant processes [plural]
Etymology: 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). Head templates: {{en-noun}} Chinese restaurant process (plural Chinese restaurant processes)
  1. (probability theory) 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. Categories (topical): Chinese restaurants, Probability theory
    Sense id: en-Chinese_restaurant_process-en-noun-P-Y0u0D~ Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Topics: mathematics, probability-theory, sciences

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