4.II.26J
(a) Let be a Poisson process of rate . Let be a number between 0 and 1 and suppose that each jump in is counted as type one with probability and type two with probability , independently for different jumps and independently of the Poisson process. Let be the number of type-one jumps and the number of type-two jumps by time . What can you say about the pair of processes and ? What if we fix probabilities with and consider types instead of two?
(b) A person collects coupons one at a time, at jump times of a Poisson process of rate . There are types of coupons, and each time a coupon of type is obtained with probability , independently of the previously collected coupons and independently of the Poisson process. Let be the first time when a complete set of coupon types is collected. Show that
Let be the total number of coupons collected by the time the complete set of coupon types is obtained. Show that . Hence, or otherwise, deduce that does not depend on .