Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
Your coincidence calculations may be correct for _independent_ draws
from a discrete distribution on M values, but independence is not
satisfied.
Yet again, you are trying to do things that any good text on
simulation would warn you against, and which (in a thread on R-devel)
you have already been told a good way to do.
A good example are the "good" old linear congruential random generators.
These will start repeating at the first coincidence, for the pretty
obvious reason that the next random number is a function only of the
previous one. So the number of distinct values in N draws is min(N,
cycle_length). In particular, the number of coincidences is 0 when N is
less than cycle_length.
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