Coupon collecting with quotas (Q1010689)
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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 5540893
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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 5540893 |
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Coupon collecting with quotas (English)
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7 April 2009
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Summary: We analyze a variant of the coupon collector's problem, in which the probabilities of obtaining coupons and the numbers of coupons in a collection may be non-uniform. We obtain a finite expression for the generating function of the probabilities to complete a collection and show how this generalizes several previous results about the coupon collector's problem. Also, we provide applications about computational complexity and approximation.
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coupon collector's problem
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generating function
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