A unified derivation of the complementary waiting time distribution in sequential occupancy

DOI10.1007/S11009-006-9750-3MaRDI QIDQ861529zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Charalambos A. Charalambides

Publication date 29 January 2007

Published in Methodology and Computing in Applied Probability (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s11009-006-9750-3

zbMATH Keywords

finite differencesgeneralized factorial coefficientsrandom occupancy modelsequential samplingStirling numbers

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Probability distributions: general theory (60E05) Point estimation (62F10) Sequential statistical methods (62L99)

Review text

Occupancy distributions are defined on a stochastic model of random allocations of balls to a specific number of distinguishable urns. The reduction of the joint distribution of the occupancy numbers, when a specific number of balls is allocated, to the joint conditional distribution of independent random variables given their sum, when the number of balls allocated is unspecified, is a powerful technique in the study of occupancy distributions. Consider a supply of balls randomly distributed into n distinguishable urns and assume that the number X of balls distributed into any specific urn is a random variable with probability function \(P(X =x) =q_x\), \(x= 0,1,\dots\) The probability function of the number \(L_r\) of occupied urns until \(r\) balls are placed into previously occupied urns is derived in terms of convolutions of \(q_x\), \(x= 0, 1,\dots\) and their finite differences. Further, using this distribution, the minimum variance unbiased estimator of the parameter n, based on a suitable sequential sampling scheme, is deduced. Finally, some illustrating applications are discussed.

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