• Title of article

    A q-Pَlya urn model and the q-Pَlya and inverse q-Pَlya distributions

  • Author/Authors

    Charalambides، نويسنده , , Ch.A.، نويسنده ,

  • Issue Information
    روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2012
  • Pages
    13
  • From page
    276
  • To page
    288
  • Abstract
    A q-Pَlya urn model is introduced by assuming that the probability of drawing a white ball at a drawing varies geometrically, with rate q, both with the number of drawings and the number of white balls drawn in the previous drawings. Then, the probability mass functions and moments of (a) the number of white balls drawn in a specific number of drawings and (b) the number of black balls drawn until a specific number of white balls are drawn are derived. These two distributions turned out to be q-analogs of the Pَlya and the inverse Pَlya distributions, respectively. Also, the limiting distributions of the q-Pَlya and the inverse q-Pَlya distributions, as the number of balls in the urn tends to infinity, are shown to be a q-binomial and a negative q-binomial distribution, respectively. In addition, the positive or negative q-hypergeometric distribution is obtained as conditional distribution of a positive or negative q-binomial distribution, given its sum with another positive or negative q-binomial distribution, independent of it.
  • Keywords
    Inverse absorption distribution , Inverse q-hypergeometric distribution , Negative q-binomial distribution , q-Binomial distribution , q-Hypergeometric distribution , Negative q-hypergeometric distribution , Absorption distribution
  • Journal title
    Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference
  • Serial Year
    2012
  • Journal title
    Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference
  • Record number

    2221723