https://www.crcpress.com/Polya-Urn-Models/Mahmoud/9781420059830
FeaturesCollects recent results in Pólya urn theoryLooks at how some classical problems of discrete probability, such as Banach’s matchbox problem, have roots in urn modelsCovers the Pólya–Eggenberger, Bernard Friedman’s, the Bagchi–Pal, and the Ehrenfest urnsExplains the processes of poissonization and depoissonizationPresents applications to random trees, evolution, competitive exclusion, epidemiology, clinical trials, and random circuitsIncludes end-of-chapter exercises that range from easy to challenging, along with solutions in the back of the book that often shed more light on the topics