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This chapter introduces a basic sequential construction of random partitions, motivated at first by consideration of uniform random permutations of [n] which are consistent in a certain sense as n varies. This leads to consideration of a particular two-parameter family of exchangeable random partition structures, which can be characterized in various ways, and which is closely related to gamma and stable subordinators.
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Pitman, J. (2006). Sequential constructions of random partitions. In: Picard, J. (eds) Combinatorial Stochastic Processes. Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol 1875. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-34266-4_4
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