Association in time of a finite semi-Markov process

Statistics and Probability Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 125-133

  Kuber, Madhuri ^a   Dharmadhikari, Avinash ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PUNE   (India)

Author keywords

Associated random variables; Product integrals; Semi Markov processes (SMP)

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030079270     PISSN: 01677152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0167-7152(94)00262-2     Document Type: Article

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