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Minimum variance in the coupon collector's problem

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 June 2017

Yaming Yu
Yaming Yu*
Affiliation:
University of California
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* Postal address: Department of Statistics, University of California, CA 92697, USA. Email address: yamingy@uci.edu
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Journal of Applied Probability , Volume 54 , Issue 2 , June 2017 , pp. 655 - 656
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