Article ID: | iaor2000453 |
Country: | United Kingdom |
Volume: | 30 |
Issue: | 3 |
Start Page Number: | 831 |
End Page Number: | 849 |
Publication Date: | Sep 1998 |
Journal: | Advances in Applied Probability |
Authors: | Stadje Wolfgang |
Generalizing the classical Banach matchbox problem, we consider the process of removing two types of ‘items’ from a ‘pile’ with selection probabilities for the type of the next item to be removed depending on the current numbers of remaining items, and thus changing sequentially. Under various conditions on the probability