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Consider the standard balls and bins process, where $m$ balls are thrown uniformly at random into $n$ bins. Previous work has been done on estimating the value of the maximum load (i.e., the number of ...

Mix $T\geq1$ coupons numbered $1$ to $T$ with a set of $S\geq0$ number of dummy coupons with no numbers. Select $N\geq1$ coupons at each trial at random and put them back. $N=1$ is standard coupon ...

Let $(X_1,\ldots,X_n)$ be a vector in $\{0,1\}^n$ drawn uniformly at random among all vectors with exactly $k$ $1'$s. I am interested in inequalities for tail probabilities for the random variables $X,...