On the coupon-collector's problem with several parallel collections
Abstract
In this note we evaluate the expectation and variance of the waiting time to complete $m$ parallel collections of coupons, in the case of coupons which arrives independently, one by one and with equal probabilities.
- Publication:
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arXiv e-prints
- Pub Date:
- September 2016
- DOI:
- 10.48550/arXiv.1609.04174
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1609.04174
- Bibcode:
- 2016arXiv160904174F
- Keywords:
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- Mathematics - Probability;
- 60C05