Poisson Limits for Generalized Random Allocation Problems.
Abstract
N balls are randomly distributed into N cells so that no cell may contain more than one ball. This process is repeated m times. In addition, balls may disappear, such disappearances are independent and identically Bernoulli distributed. Conditions are given under which the number of empty cells has an asymptotically (N approaches limit of infinity) Poisson distribution. Keywords: Poisson limits; Statistical mechanics; Nonparametric statistics; Approximation(mathematical); Probability distributions.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Feb 01, 1987
- Accession Number
- ADA180945
Entities
People
- Bernard Harris
Organizations
- University of Wisconsin–Madison