On the number of overflown urns and excess balls in an allocation model with limited urn capacity

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 104, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 259-286

  Boutsikas, M V ^a   Koutras, M V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PIRAEUS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Compound Poisson approximation; Generalized birthday problems; Kolmogorov distance; Limit theorems; Markov chain imbedding; Negative association; Poisson approximation; Rate of convergence; Sequential occupancy; Urn models

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036605072     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-3758(01)00263-4     Document Type: Article

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