Variants of the Choquet-Deny theorem with applications

Journal of Applied Probability

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 101-106

  Fosam, E B ^a   Shanbhag, D N ^b  

^a SHEFFIELD HALLAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Choquet deny theorem; Exponential distribution; Reliability; Renewal process

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; PROBLEM SOLVING; RANDOM PROCESSES; RELIABILITY;

CHOQUET DENY THEORY; EXPONENTIAL DISTRIBUTION; RELEVATION TYPE TRANSFORM; RENEWAL PROCESS;

PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

EID: 0031082723     PISSN: 00219002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0021900200100749     Document Type: Article

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