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chinese restaurant process

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.44 in modern English

Syllables
chi-ne-se restau-ran-t pro-cess
IPA
33
Scrabble Score
24
Letters
6
Syllables
12
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

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.

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).

Inflected Forms

Chinese restaurant processes (plural)

Questions

What does chinese restaurant process mean?
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.
Where does chinese restaurant process come from?
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).

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