A queueing theoretical proof of increasing property of Polya frequency functions

Statistics and Probability Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 233-242

  Daduna, Hans ^a   Szekli, Ryszard ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WROC AW   (Poland)

Author keywords

Negative association; Polya frequency functions; Product form equilibrium; Queueing networks

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030584312     PISSN: 01677152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0167-7152(95)00015-1     Document Type: Article

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