The number of winners in a discrete geometrically distributed sample
Kirschenhofer, Peter ; Prodinger, Helmut
Ann. Appl. Probab., Tome 6 (1996) no. 1, p. 687-694 / Harvested from Project Euclid
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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.
Publié le : 1996-05-14
Classification:  Geometric distribution,  generating functions,  Rice's method,  60C05 
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Kirschenhofer, Peter; Prodinger, Helmut. The number of winners in a discrete geometrically distributed
		 sample. Ann. Appl. Probab., Tome 6 (1996) no. 1, pp.  687-694. http://gdmltest.u-ga.fr/item/1034968150/