Nonhomogeneous poisson processes and logconcavity

Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 353-373

  Pellerey, Franco ^a   Shaked, Moshe ^b   Zinn, Joel ^c  

^a POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

^b University of Arizona   (United States)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENGINEERING; INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING;

COUNTING PROCESS; DISCRETE PROBABILITY DENSITY; DISCRETE TIME; LOG-CONCAVE DENSITIES; LOGCONCAVITY; MINIMAL REPAIR; NON-HOMOGENEOUS POISSON PROCESS; RECORD VALUES;

POISSON DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 0034551897     PISSN: 02699648     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s0269964800143062     Document Type: Article

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