Rhee, WanSoo T. - In: Statistics & Probability Letters 41 (1999) 2, pp. 199-208
It is known that given N random subintervals of [0, 1], one can find a disjoint subcollection that covers all of [0, 1] except a set of length about (log N)2/N. We investigate what happens when the distribution of the intervals is biased to favor shorter intervals or intervals close to the...