Expected number of four-card subsets from a Poisson box
Question
A box contains cards. Someone will pick a set of of them. What is the expected number of different 4-card sets that can be picked, i.e. (with when )?
Short answer
. , and the falling factorial moments of a Poisson() are . So the expectation is .
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- Defining the Poisson Process: Three Equivalent Constructions
- Counting and Combinatorics
- Expectation, Mean, and Variance
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