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Expected value of expression involving multinomial random variables and Heaviside step function of said variables

Question 1 I have the following expression: $H/S$, where $H=\begin{cases}0,& \text{ if } rm\leq dj \\ 1, & \text{ if } rm>dj \end{cases}$ and $S=n-j$, and both $m$ and $j$ are drawn from ...
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Expected number of uniques in a non-uniformly distributed population

I am wondering if there is any reasonably simple way of calculating the following problem: Drawing, with replacement, $n$ balls from a bin of $N$ different colored balls, with a known probability of ...