Asymptotics in randomized urn models

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2005-03-24

arxiv.org/abs/math/0503521v1

Annals of Applied Probability 2005, Vol. 15, No. 1B, 914-940

Mathematics

Probability

Published at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/105051604000000774 in the Annals of Applied Probability (http://www.imstat.org/aap/) by

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10.1214/105051604000000774

This paper studies a very general urn model stimulated by designs in clinical trials, where the number of balls of different types added to the urn at trial n depends on a random outcome directed by the composition at trials 1,2,...,n-1. Patient treatments are allocated according to types of balls. We establish the strong consistency and asymptotic normality for both the urn composition and the patient allocation under general assumptions on random generating matrices which determine how balls are added to the urn. Also we obtain explicit forms of the asymptotic variance-covariance matrices of both the urn composition and the patient allocation. The conditions on the nonhomogeneity of generating matrices are mild and widely satisfied in applications. Several applications are also discussed.

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