Dixie cups: sampling with replacement from a finite population

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 01 Dec 1994 Netherlands English Publisher:Cambridge University Press (CUP)Journal:Journal of Applied Probability, volume 31, pages 940-948 (issn: 0021-9002, eissn: 1475-6072,

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Authors: Klaassen, C.A.J.;

doi: 10.2307/3215319 , 10.1017/s0021900200099472

handle: 11245/1.101480

Dixie cups: sampling with replacement from a finite population

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Abstract

At which (random) sample size will every population element have been drawn at least m times? This special coupon collector's problem is often referred to as the Dixie cup problem. Some asymptotic properties of the Dixie cup problem with unequal sampling probabilities are described.

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Netherlands

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University of Amsterdam
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Extreme value theory; extremal stochastic processes, Combinatorial probability, gamma distribution, coupon collector's problem, Central limit and other weak theorems, extreme values

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