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Coupon Collector - Introduction
Course Topic(s): Probability | Combinatorics | Discrete Distributions, geometric and negative binomial | Famous Problems, coupon collecting
Good statement of the problem with expectation and variance calculated. Several methods of bounding the expectation and variance are given as the number of coupons gets large.
Resource URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coupon_collector's_problem
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Subject classification(s):
Univariate Distributions
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Probability
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Statistics and Probability
Creator(s): Wikipedia
Contributor(s): Wikipedia authors
This resource was cataloged by Carolyn Cuff
Publisher:Wikipedia
Resource copyright: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike
This review was published on September 16, 2012
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