The Poisson-Dirichlet family consists of laws of decreasing random mass partitions (pi) with ∑ipi=1. Its two-parameter notation is PD(α,θ), with 0≤α<1 and θ>−α. The conventional one-parameter probability distributionPD(θ)means PD(0,θ), for θ>0, and can be constructed from normalized gammajumps.