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A306505 Number of non-isomorphic antichains of nonempty subsets of {1,...,n}.

Original entry on oeis.org

1, 2, 4, 9, 29, 209, 16352, 490013147, 1392195548889993357, 789204635842035040527740846300252679
Offset: 0

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Author

Gus Wiseman, Feb 20 2019

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The spanning case is A006602 or A261005. The labeled case is A014466.
From Petros Hadjicostas, Apr 22 2020: (Start)
a(n) is the number of "types" of log-linear hierarchical models on n factors in the sense of Colin Mallows (see the emails to N. J. A. Sloane).
Two hierarchical models on n factors belong to the same "type" iff one can obtained from the other by a permutation of the factors.
The total number of hierarchical log-linear models on n factors (in all "types") is given by A014466(n) = A000372(n) - 1.
The name of a hierarchical log-linear model on factors is based on the collection of maximal interaction terms, which must be an antichain (by the definition of maximality).
In his example on p. 1, Colin Mallows groups the A014466(3) = 19 hierarchical log-linear models on n = 3 factors x, y, z into a(3) = 9 types. See my example below for more details. (End)
First differs from A348260(n + 1) - 1 at a(5) = 209, A348260(6) - 1 = 232. - Gus Wiseman, Nov 28 2021

Examples

			Non-isomorphic representatives of the a(0) = 1 through a(3) = 9 antichains:
  {}  {}     {}         {}
      {{1}}  {{1}}      {{1}}
             {{1,2}}    {{1,2}}
             {{1},{2}}  {{1},{2}}
                        {{1,2,3}}
                        {{1},{2,3}}
                        {{1},{2},{3}}
                        {{1,3},{2,3}}
                        {{1,2},{1,3},{2,3}}
From _Petros Hadjicostas_, Apr 23 2020: (Start)
We expand _Colin Mallows_'s example from p. 1 of his list of 1991 emails. For n = 3, we have the following a(3) = 9 "types" of log-linear hierarchical models:
Type 1: ( ), Type 2: (x), (y), (z), Type 3: (x,y), (y,z), (z,x), Type 4: (x,y,z), Type 5: (xy), (yz), (zx), Type 6: (xy,z), (yz,x), (zx,y), Type 7: (xy,xz), (yx,yz), (zx,zy), Type 8: (xy,yz,zx), Type 9: (xyz).
For each model, the name only contains the maximal terms. See p. 36 in Wickramasinghe (2008) for the full description of the 19 models.
Strictly speaking, I should have used set notation (rather than parentheses) for the name of each model, but I follow the tradition of the theory of log-linear models. In addition, in an interaction term such as xy, the order of the factors is irrelevant.
Models in the same type essentially have similar statistical properties.
For example, models in Type 7 have the property that two factors are conditionally independent of one another given each level (= category) of the third factor.
Models in Type 6 are such that two factors are jointly independent from the third one. (End)
		

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Formula

a(n) = A003182(n) - 1.
Partial sums of A006602 minus 1.

Extensions

a(8) from A003182. - Bartlomiej Pawelski, Nov 27 2022
a(9) from A003182. - Dmitry I. Ignatov, Nov 27 2023