Derivation of the probability distribution functions for succession quota random variables

Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 551-561

  Antzoulakos, Demetrios L ^a   Philippou, Andreas N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Bernoulli trials; Binary sequence of order k; Longest run; Probability distribution function; Probability generating function; Sooner and later problems; Succession quota

Indexed keywords

EID: 0042140894     PISSN: 00203157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00050854     Document Type: Article

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