Generalized Coupon Collection: The Superlinear Case

Author:

Smythe R. T.

Abstract

We consider a generalized form of the coupon collection problem in which a random number, S, of balls is drawn at each stage from an urn initially containing n white balls (coupons). Each white ball drawn is colored red and returned to the urn; red balls drawn are simply returned to the urn. The question considered is then: how many white balls (uncollected coupons) remain in the urn after the kn draws? Our analysis is asymptotic as n → ∞. We concentrate on the case when kn draws are made, where kn / n → ∞ (the superlinear case), although we sketch known results for other ranges of kn. A Gaussian limit is obtained via a martingale representation for the lower superlinear range, and a Poisson limit is derived for the upper boundary of this range via the Chen-Stein approximation.

Publisher

Cambridge University Press (CUP)

Subject

Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty,General Mathematics,Statistics and Probability

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