On the exact distribution of SECON and its application

Statistica Sinica

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 999-1010

  Fu, James C ^a   Lou, W Y Wendy ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ergodic distribution; Markov dependence; Sequential continuity

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034396925     PISSN: 10170405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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