January 1, 1959Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B (Statistical Methodology)

The Dispersion of a Number of Species

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SUMMARY The problem of dispersal of one-coloured balls in boxes is generalized for the case of a number of colours. An approximation is obtained for the distribution of the number of colours per box.

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Barton et al. (1959) studied this question.

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Abstract

SUMMARY The problem of dispersal of one-coloured balls in boxes is generalized for the case of a number of colours. An approximation is obtained for the distribution of the number of colours per box.