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Multinomial Probability Mass Function

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Reason: First version: multinomial probability mass function on the count lattice for a given number of trials and cell probability vector.

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Let N\mathbb{N} be the set of natural numbers, N0=N{0}\mathbb{N}_0=\mathbb{N}\cup\{0\}, let lNl\in\mathbb{N}, and let Rl\mathbb{R}^l be Euclidean space, whose points are written k=(k1,,kl)k=(k_1,\dots,k_l). Let Sˉ=(Sˉ1,,Sˉl)\bar S=(\bar S_1,\dots,\bar S_l) be a point of the probability simplex Δl\Delta^l, whose coordinates we write with subscripts, and let nNn\in\mathbb{N}. Put

Kn={kN0l: γ=1lkγ=n}Rl.\mathsf{K}_n=\Bigl\{k\in\mathbb{N}_0^{\,l}:\ \sum_{\gamma=1}^{l}k_\gamma=n\Bigr\}\subseteq\mathbb{R}^l.

The multinomial probability mass function with nn trials and cell probabilities Sˉ\bar S is the function pn,Sˉ:RlRp_{n,\bar S}:\mathbb{R}^l\to\mathbb{R},

pn,Sˉ(k)=n!k1!kl!γ=1lSˉγkγ(kKn),pn,Sˉ(k)=0(kRlKn),p_{n,\bar S}(k)=\frac{n!}{k_1!\cdots k_l!}\prod_{\gamma=1}^{l}\bar S_\gamma^{\,k_\gamma}\quad(k\in\mathsf{K}_n),\qquad p_{n,\bar S}(k)=0\quad(k\in\mathbb{R}^l\setminus\mathsf{K}_n),

with the factorial (convention 0!=10!=1), the convention x0=1x^{0}=1, and the finite product notation.

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