Prediction of record-breakings

Statistica Sinica

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 893-906

  Sibuya, Masaaki ^a   Nishimura, Kazuo ^a,b  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KOMAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Nevzorov model; Random walk; Record value theory; Stirling family of discrete distributions; Stirling Carlitz polynomial

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031315458     PISSN: 10170405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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