The number of winners in a discrete geometrically distributed sample
Peter Kirschenhofer, Helmut Prodinger · The Annals of Applied Probability · 1996
In this tutorial, statistics on the number of people who tie for first place are considered. It is demonstrated that the so-called Rice's method from the calculus of finite differences is a very convenient tool both to rederive known results as well as to gain new ones with ease.