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Partitioning the coupons collected in the classical coupon collector's problem

Suppose that there is an urn containing $n$ different coupons, from which $m$ coupons are being collected, equally likely, with replacement. Let $C(m)$ be the whole set of the $m$ collected coupons. ...
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What is an efficient non-adaptive group testing scheme if the number of defectives, $d$, grows proportionally to the number of items, $n$?

Suppose that for some $p \in \left(0, 1\right)$ and some $n \in \mathbb{N}$, we have $n$ independent Bernoulli random variables, $X_{1}, X_{2}, \dots, X_{n}$, each with mean $p$. We shall call $X_{1}, ...
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