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arxiv: math/0304311 · v2 · submitted 2003-04-22 · 🧮 math.PR · math.ST· stat.TH

Identifying several biased coins encountered by a hidden random walk

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Suppose that attached to each site z in Z is a coin with bias theta(z), and only finitely many of these coins have non-zero bias. Allow a simple random walker to generate observations by tossing, at each move, the coin attached to its current position. Then we can determine the biases {theta(z) : z in Z}, using only the outcomes of these coin tosses and no information about the path of the random walker, up to a shift and reflection of Z. This generalizes a result of Harris and Keane.

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