On the joint distribution of runs in a sequence of multi-state trials

Statistics and Probability Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 133-141

  Doi, Masayuki ^a   Yamamoto, Eiji ^a  

^a OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Joint distribution; Markov chain; Multiple states; Run

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032138303     PISSN: 01677152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0167-7152(98)00051-0     Document Type: Article

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