Joint distributions of successes, failures and patterns in enumeration problems

Advances in Applied Probability

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 866-884

  Chadjiconstantinidis, S ^a   Antzoulakos, D L ^a   Koutras, M V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PIRAEUS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNCTIONS; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POLYNOMIALS;

BERNOULLI TRIALS;

PROBABILITY;

EID: 0034266845     PISSN: 00018678     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0001867800010296     Document Type: Article

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