On 06/17/2010 03:27 AM, Somnath Somnath wrote:
Thanks for all those reply. Is there any general rule to determine how many
samples I would get from a population of size "n", I draw a sample of size
"m" ("m" may be greater than "n") if sample is drawn with replacement?
Hi Somnath,
If you mean "how many unique values", I think this is the "occupancy"
problem that is discussed in:
Feller, W. (1950) An introduction to probability theory and its
applications (Vol 1). New York: Wiley.
and probably other places. You can calculate the probability of
obtaining each possible number of outcomes using the Maxwell-Botlzmann
distribution.
Jim
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