The Probability Distribution for Draws Until First Success Without Replacement
Probability
2014-04-07 v1
Abstract
We consider the urn setting with two different objects, ``good'' and ``bad'', and analyze the number of draws without replacement until a good object is picked. Although the expected number of draws for this setting is a standard textbook exercise, we compute the variance, and show that this distribution converges to the geometric distribution.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1404.1161,
title = {The Probability Distribution for Draws Until First Success Without Replacement},
author = {John Ahlgren},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1404.1161},
year = {2014}
}