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{\bf Russell May}
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{\bf Coupon Collecting with Quotas}
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We analyze a variant of the coupon collector's problem, in which the
probabilities of obtaining coupons and the numbers of coupons in a
collection may be non-uniform. We obtain a finite expression for the
generating function of the probabilities to complete a collection and
show how this generalizes several previous results about the coupon
collector's problem. Also, we provide applications about computational
complexity and approximation.

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