Bayesian prediction of waiting times in stochastic models

Canadian Journal of Statistics

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 311-325

  Butler, Ronald W ^a   Huzurbazar, Aparna V ^b  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian predictive distribution; Birth death process; Laplace's approximation; Markov process; Queues; Renewal theory; Saddlepoint approximation; Semi Markov process

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034343745     PISSN: 03195724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3315981     Document Type: Article

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