Limit Theorems for an Extended Coupon Collector's Problem and for Successive Subsampling with Varying Probabilites *

Abstract

Asymptotic normality as well as some weak invariance principles for bonus sums and waiting times in an extended coupon collector's problem are considered and incorporated in the study of the asymptotic distribution theory of estimators of (finite) population totals in successive sub-sampling (or multistage sampling) with varying probabilities (without replacement). Some applications of these theorems are also considered.