Ciardo, Gianfranco; Leemis, Lawrence M.; Nicol, David - In: Statistics & Probability Letters 23 (1995) 4, pp. 313-326
The expectations E[X(1)], E[Z(1)], and E[Y(1)] of the minimum of n independent geometric, modified geometric, or exponential random variables with matching expectations differ. We show how this is accounted for by stochastic variability and how E[X(1)]/E[Y(1)] equals the expected number of ties...
