Chinese restaurant process (English, noun)
expansion: Chinese restaurant process (plural Chinese restaurant processes)
Senses:
topics: mathematics
probability-theory
sciences
glosses: 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.
Forms:
form: Chinese restaurant processes
tags: plural