More specifically, a solution to the recurrence relation is a value that satisfies "if each child call terminates with probability t, the parent call terminates with probability t" but a solution ...

John Riordan, Moment Recurrence Relations for Binomial, Poisson and Hypergeometric Frequency Distributions, The Annals of Mathematical Statistics, Vol. 8, No. 2 (Jun ...

The two-parameter Poisson-Dirichlet distribution, denoted PD (α, θ), is a probability distribution on the set of decreasing positive sequences with sum 1. The usual Poisson-Dirichlet distribution with ...