2014/04/04 by John Ahlgren, Ahlgren, John
Environmental Science · #FOS: Mathematics #Forest ecology and management #Probability (math.PR) #Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications #Soil Geostatistics and Mapping
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1404.1161
openalex publication_date 2014/04/04 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
We consider the urn setting with two different objects, ``good'' and ``bad'', and analyze the number of draws without replacement until a good object is picked. Although the expected number of draws for this setting is a standard textbook exercise, we compute the variance, and show that this distribution converges to the geometric distribution.