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Chinese restaurant processes

Chinese restaurant processes is the plural of Chinese restaurant process.

Meaning of Chinese restaurant process

Noun

Chinese restaurant process (plural Chinese restaurant processes)

  1. 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.

Questions about Chinese restaurant processes

What is Chinese restaurant processes the plural of?
Chinese restaurant processes is the plural of Chinese restaurant process.

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