Error analysis of some integration procedures for renewal equation and convolution integrals

Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation

Volumn 73, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 59-70

  Xie, Min ^a   Preuss, Wolfgang ^b   Cui, Li Rong ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES DRESDEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Convolution; Error analysis; Numerical methods; Renewal function; Riemann Stieltjes integral

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037279970     PISSN: 00949655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00949650215727     Document Type: Article

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