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Selected Works of Tamas Lengyel
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Direct consequences of the basic ballot theorem
Statistics & Probability Letters (2011)
  • Tamas Lengyel, Occidental College
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Abstract

We use only the classic basic ballot result and simple combinatorial arguments to derive the distributions of the first passage time and the number of visits in the usual random walk model.

Keywords
  • ballot theorem
Disciplines
Publication Date
2011
Citation Information
Tamas Lengyel. "Direct consequences of the basic ballot theorem" Statistics & Probability Letters Vol. 81 (2011)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/tamas_lengyel/9/