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arxiv: 0908.3528 · v1 · submitted 2009-08-25 · 🧮 math.PR

Notes on Feige's gumball machines problem

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We give a detailed proof, in the identically distributed case, of a conjecture of Feige about the maximum probability that the sum of n independent non-negative integer valued random variables, each of mean 1, exceeds n. The general case is reduced to two-point distributions.

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