Tail of compound distributions and excess time

Journal of Applied Probability

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 184-195

  Lin, Xiaodong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Excess time; Exponential and non exponential bounds; Insurance risk; M G 1 queue; New better than used; New worse than used; Ruin probabilitY; Wald's identity

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030554651     PISSN: 00219002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0021900200103845     Document Type: Article

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