The Coupon Collector's Brother
Probability
2020-05-13 v2
Abstract
A popular variant of the collector's problem is the following: Assume there are different types of coupons with equal occurring probabilities. There is one main collector who collects coupons. When she gets a "double," she gives it to her younger brother. Hence, when the main collector completes her collection, her brother's album will still have, say, empty spaces. We show that, as , the limiting distribution of is exponential with parameter .
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@article{arxiv.2005.05270,
title = {The Coupon Collector's Brother},
author = {Vassilis G. Papanicolaou and Aristides V. Doumas},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2005.05270},
year = {2020}
}
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8 pages