The number of winners in a discrete geometrically distributed sample (Q1814758)
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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 940699
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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 940699 |
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The number of winners in a discrete geometrically distributed sample (English)
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31 October 1996
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Statistics on the number of people who tie for first place are considered. It is demonstrated that the so-called Rice's method from the calculus of finite differences is a very convenient tool both to rederive known results as well as to gain new ones with ease. Some new results concerning higher moments of distribution as well as the number of persons reaching a specified level beyond the winner(s) are given.
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geometric distribution
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generating function
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Rice's method
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