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Jim Pitman

Professor of Statistics and Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley
Verified email at stat.berkeley.edu
Cited by 17598

Probability laws related to the Jacobi theta and Riemann zeta functions, and Brownian excursions

P Biane, J Pitman, M Yor - Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society, 2001 - ams.org
This paper reviews known results which connect Riemann’s integral representations of his
zeta function, involving Jacobi’s theta function and its derivatives, to some particular …

Coalescents with multiple collisions

J Pitman - Annals of Probability, 1999 - JSTOR
… Evans and Pitman [15] gave a general framework for the rigorous construction of partition-valued
and discrete measure-valued coalescent Markov processes allowing infinitely many …

[BOOK][B] Combinatorial stochastic processes: Ecole d'eté de probabilités de saint-flour xxxii-2002

J Pitman - 2006 - books.google.com
… This volume contains the course “Combinatorial stochastic processes” of Professor
Pitman. We cordially thank the author for his performance in Saint-Flour and for these notes. …

Saddle (baroque) dolomite in carbonates and sandstones: A reappraisal of a burial‐diagenetic concept

C Spötl, JK Pitman - Carbonate cementation in sandstones …, 1998 - Wiley Online Library
Saddle (baroque) dolomite, defined as coarse‐crystalline dolospar with regularly to irregularly
curved crystal boundaries and sweeping extinction, has been described from numerous …

Exchangeable and partially exchangeable random partitions

J Pitman - Probability theory and related fields, 1995 - Springer
… , devised by Dubins and Pitman to explain the cycle structure … case follows from the work
of Perman-Pitman-Yor [25], who … Pitman, J.: Partition structures derived from Brownian motion …

The two-parameter Poisson-Dirichlet distribution derived from a stable subordinator

J Pitman, M Yor - The Annals of Probability, 1997 - JSTOR
… The connection with the Brownian bridge in this setting is explained in-Aldous and Pitman
[3]. See [58, 18] for recent developments in this vein. The PD(a, 0) distribution also arises as …

Assessment of undiscovered oil and gas in the Arctic

…, DW Houseknecht, TR Klett, TE Moore, JK Pitman… - Science, 2009 - science.org
Among the greatest uncertainties in future energy supply and a subject of considerable
environmental concern is the amount of oil and gas yet to be found in the Arctic. By using a …

Immediate implant placement with or without immediate provisionalization: A systematic review and meta‐analysis

J Pitman, L Seyssens, V Christiaens… - Journal of clinical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
… A systematic review and meta‐analysis - Pitman - 2022 - Journal of Clinical Periodontology -
Wiley Online Library … Jeremy Pitman and Lorenz Seyssens contributed equally to this study. …

Circum-Arctic resource appraisal: Estimates of undiscovered oil and gas north of the Arctic Circle

…, DL Gautier, DW Houseknecht, TR Klett, JK Pitman… - 2008 - pubs.usgs.gov
The US Geological Survey (USGS) has completed an assessment of undiscovered
conventional oil and gas resources in all areas north of the Arctic Circle. Using a geology-based …

Some developments of the Blackwell-MacQueen urn scheme

J Pitman - Lecture Notes-Monograph Series, 1996 - JSTOR
The Blackwell-MacQueen description of sampling from a Dirichlet random distribution on an
abstract space is reviewed, and extended to a general family of random discrete …