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Direct Consequences Of The Basic Ballot Theorem, Tamas Lengyel Dec 2010

Direct Consequences Of The Basic Ballot Theorem, Tamas Lengyel

Tamas Lengyel

We use only the classic basic ballot result and simple combinatorial arguments to derive the distributions of the first passage time and the number of visits in the usual random walk model.