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On the coupon-collector's problem with several parallel collections

Probability 2016-09-15 v1

Abstract

In this note we evaluate the expectation and variance of the waiting time to complete mm parallel collections of coupons, in the case of coupons which arrives independently, one by one and with equal probabilities.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1609.04174,
  title  = {On the coupon-collector's problem with several parallel collections},
  author = {Marco Ferrante and Alessia Tagliavini},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1609.04174},
  year   = {2016}
}
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