| Article ID: | iaor1997686 |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Volume: | 28 |
| Issue: | 2 |
| Start Page Number: | 525 |
| End Page Number: | 539 |
| Publication Date: | Jun 1996 |
| Journal: | Advances in Applied Probability |
| Authors: | Pitman Jim |
Invariance of a random discrete distribution under size-biased permutation is equivalent to a conjunction of symmetry conditions on its finite-dimensional distributions. This is applied to characterize residual allocation models with independent factors that are invariant under size-biased permutation. Apart from some exceptional cases and minor modifications, such models form a two-parameter family of generalized Dirichlet distributions.