Timeline for Expected number of packed items in box
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| Oct 3, 2014 at 14:18 | vote | accept | murv | ||
| Oct 2, 2014 at 19:35 | comment | added | The Masked Avenger | If the X_i hands you the items, I don't see what choice you have where greedily applies, unless you can choose to stop before the box is full. | |
| Oct 2, 2014 at 18:29 | answer | added | Robert Israel | timeline score: 0 | |
| Oct 2, 2014 at 18:09 | comment | added | murv | Thanks Yoav, will look into that. But won't that require some knowledge about the distribution of $X_i$? | |
| Oct 2, 2014 at 17:42 | comment | added | Yoav Kallus | I is a "first passage time" for a biased random walk. That term might help you with finding a useful reference. | |
| Oct 2, 2014 at 17:38 | history | edited | murv | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Oct 2, 2014 at 17:28 | history | asked | murv | CC BY-SA 3.0 |