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A probability provides a quantitative description of the likely occurrence of a particular event.

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What is a tight lower bound on the coupon collector time?

Although @cardinal has already given an answer that gives precisely the bound I was looking for, I have found a similar Chernoff-style argument that can give a stronger bound: Proposition: $$ Pr (T …
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What is a tight lower bound on the coupon collector time?

In the classic Coupon Collector's problem, it is well known that the time $T$ necessary to complete a set of $n$ randomly-picked coupons satisfies $E[T] \sim n \ln n $,$Var(T) \sim n^2$, and $\Pr(T > …
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