Theory of overdispersion in counting statistics caused by fluctuating probabilities

Applied Radiation and Isotopes

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 565-579

  Semkow, Thomas M ^a,b  

^a WADSWORTH CENTER   (United States)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNCTIONS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PROBABILITY; RANDOM PROCESSES;

OVERDISPERSION THEORY; RADIOACTIVE DECAY; RANDOM LEXIS FLUCTUATIONS;

RADIOACTIVITY;

ARTICLE; DISPERSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; RADIOISOTOPE DECAY; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS; STATISTICS; SYSTEM ANALYSIS;

EID: 0032783622     PISSN: 09698043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0969-8043(99)00076-7     Document Type: Article

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