First crossing of basic counting processes with lower non-linear boundaries: A unified approach through pseudopolynomials (I)

Advances in Applied Probability

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 853-876

  Picard, Philippe ^a   Lefèvre, Claude ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Abel Gontcharoff polynomials; Appell polynomials; Lower and upper boundaries

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000827499     PISSN: 00018678     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0001867800046528     Document Type: Article

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