THE NUMBER OF WINNERS IN A DISCRETE GEOMETRICALLY DISTRIBUTED SAMPLE

成果类型:
Article
署名作者:
Kirschenhofer, Peter; Prodinger, Helmut
署名单位:
Technische Universitat Wien
刊物名称:
ANNALS OF APPLIED PROBABILITY
ISSN/ISSBN:
1050-5164
发表日期:
1996
页码:
687-694
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摘要:
In this tutorial, statistics on the number of people who tie for first place are considered. It is demonstrated that the so-called Rice's method from the calculus of finite differences is a very convenient tool both to rederive known results as well as to gain new ones with ease.