Random discrete distributions derived from self-similar random sets

Electronic Journal of Probability

Volumn 1, Issue , 1996, Pages 1-28

  Pitman, Jim ^a   Yor, Marc ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b University of Paris VII LPSM partially supported by ERC Starting Grant 680275 MALIG   (France)

Author keywords

Excursion lengths; Interval partition; Regenerative set; Structural distribution; Zero set

Indexed keywords

EID: 0009425346     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10836489     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/EJP.v1-4     Document Type: Article

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