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- From: umatf071@unibi.hrz.uni-bielefeld.de (sio)
- Subject: the mode of an occupation problem
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.190845.24554@unibi.hrz.uni-bielefeld.de>
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 92 19:08:45 GMT
- Organization: Universitaet Bielefeld
- Keywords: occupation, Stirling 2nd, mode
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- occupation problem:
- If you distribute
- n balls into m urns (each urn is equally likely)
- the probability that exactly t urns contain at least
- one ball is:
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- p(n,m,t) = (m)_t S(n,t) / m^n
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- with: (m)_t the falling factorial and
- S(n,t) the Stirling number of the 2nd kind.
-
- Question:
- where is the mode of p(n)?
- The parameters m and t are fixed.
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- Conjecture:
- ===========
- z = log( m / (m-t) ) / log( m / (m-1) )
- The mode is ceiling(z) or floor(z).
- It is not each time the nearest integer.
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- Torsten Sillke
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