A coupon collector's problem with bonuses

In this article, we study a variant of the coupon collector's problem introducing a notion of a \emphbonus. Suppose that there are c different types of coupons made up of bonus coupons and ordinary coupons, and that a collector gets every coupon with probability 1/c each day. Moreover suppose t...

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Main Authors: Toshio Nakata, Izumi Kubo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Discrete Mathematics & Theoretical Computer Science 2006-01-01
Series:Discrete Mathematics & Theoretical Computer Science
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Online Access:https://dmtcs.episciences.org/3515/pdf