Kimeldorf, George; Smith, Furman H. - In: Management Science 25 (1979) 11, pp. 1115-1126
Suppose N objects are hidden in m boxes where m is known and N is unknown; for example, suppose that we are hunting for defects (objects) in a system having several components (boxes). Let p = (p<sub>1</sub>, p<sub>2</sub>, ...) denote the probability distribution of N where p<sub>n</sub> = P(N = n). The objects are...