The Classical Occupancy Distribution: Computation and Approximation

DOI10.1080/00031305.2019.1699445OpenAlexW2995214147MaRDI QIDQ5056993

Ben O'Neill

Publication date: 14 December 2022

Published in: The American Statistician (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/00031305.2019.1699445

zbMATH Keywords

approximationcomputationbirthday problemcoupon collector problemclassical occupancy distributiondistribution and moments

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Statistics (62-XX)

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