Matching moments to phase distributions: Mixtures of erlang distributions of common order

Communications in Statistics. Stochastic Models

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 1989, Pages 711-743

  Johnson, Mary A ^a   Taaffe, Michael R ^a  

^a SCHOOL OF INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING   (United States)

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EID: 0001607009     PISSN: 08820287     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15326348908807131     Document Type: Article

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