Chinese restaurant process (statistics)
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Election of authors since 21 January 2009.
Candidates are listed in the order they were nominated.
Click 'article' to participate in the election or add candidates.
A soft-max (probabilistic) procedure will be used to choose the author based on the number of votes received. Thus, electing one candidate does not imply that any (or all) of the other candidates received fewer votes.