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The 8 pages that link to Stars and bars, each with the reason it gives.

• MultisetRelated: Its solutions correspond to multisets with prescribed total size.

• CombinationBroader topic: It transforms combinations with repetition into choices of separator positions.

• Multinomial coefficientCompared with: It counts distributions with variable group sizes, unlike fixed-size multinomial arrangements.

• Vandermonde's identityRelated: Binomial coefficients can count the selections underlying a combinatorial proof.

• Multinomial theoremRelated: It counts the exponent vectors indexing terms when the number of summands is fixed.

• Hockey-stick identityRelated: A related counting argument sums the number of ways to choose a fixed-size subset by its largest element.

• Combinatorial principlesRelated: It translates allocations into arrangements of objects and separators.

• Twelvefold wayBroader topic: It counts occupancy vectors when objects are indistinguishable and boxes are labeled.