Duality results for block-structured transition matrices

Journal of Applied Probability

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 1045-1057

  Zhao, Yiqiang Q ^b   Li, Wei ^a,c   Alfa, Attahiru Sule ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA AT LAFAYETTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WINNIPEG   (Canada)

^c University of Louisiana at Lafayette   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Block structures; Duality; Markov renewal processes

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033472405     PISSN: 00219002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S002190020001785X     Document Type: Article

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