Table of Contents

Urn Models and Rudiments of Discrete Probability. Some Classical Urn Problems.Pólya Urn Models.Poissonization. The Depoissonization Heuristic. Urn Schemes with Random Replacement.Analytic Urns.Applications of Pólya Urns in Informatics.Urn Schemes in Bioscience.Urns Evolving by Multiple Drawing. Answers to Exercises. Notation. Bibliographic Notes. Bibliography. Index.

About the Author

Hosam Mahmoud

Reviews

"Pólya Urn Models describes the established theory and details numerous new developments since the seminal 1977 text Urn Models and Their Application: An Approach to Modern Discrete Probability Theory by Johnson and Kotz. … the second half of Mahmoud’s book largely covers new advances since Johnson and Kotz’s book … This latter material makes the current text unique. … The end-of-chapter exercises (of greatly varying difficulty) have excellent in-depth solutions at the end of the text. … The book is exceptionally well written, concise, and compelling. The author obviously commands this material, and his enthusiasm is unmistakable."
—Matthew Bognar, Journal of the American Statistical Association, September 2014, Vol. 109