Analysis, synthesis, and estimation of fractal-rate stochastic point processes

Fractals

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 565-595

  Thurner, Stefan ^a   Lowen, Steven B ^a   Feurstein, Markus C ^a   Heneghan, Conor ^a   Feichtinger, Hans G ^b   Teich, Malvin C ^c  

^a Boston University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0342572955     PISSN: 0218348X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0218348X97000462     Document Type: Article

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