Balls in Boxes: Variations on a Theme of Warren Ewens and Herbert Wilf

Shalosh B. Ekhad and Doron Zeilberger ()
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Shalosh B. Ekhad: Rutgers University (New Brunswick), Department of Mathematics
Doron Zeilberger: Rutgers University (New Brunswick), Department of Mathematics

A chapter in Advances in Combinatorics, 2013, pp 161-174 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract We discuss, from an experimental mathematics viewpoint, a classical problem in epidemiology recently discussed by Ewens and Wilf, that can be formulated in terms of “balls in boxes”, and demonstrate that the “Poission approximation” (usually) suffices.

Keywords: Epidemiology; Computer-generated recurrences; Poisson process (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-30979-3_8

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