Paper 3, Section II, K
Part II, 2015
(i) Let be a Poisson process of parameter . Let be obtained by taking each point of and, independently of the other points, keeping it with probability . Show that is another Poisson process and find its intensity. Show that for every fixed the random variables and are independent.
(ii) Suppose we have bins, and balls arrive according to a Poisson process of rate 1 . Upon arrival we choose a bin uniformly at random and place the ball in it. We let be the maximum number of balls in any bin at time . Show that
[You may use the fact that if is a Poisson random variable of mean 1 , then