Distribution of waiting time until the rth occurrence of a compound pattern

Statistics and Probability Letters

Volumn 75, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 29-38

  Chang, Yung Ming ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAITUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Compound pattern; Finite Markov chain imbedding; Probability generating function; Waiting time

Indexed keywords

EID: 26644452306     PISSN: 01677152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.spl.2005.05.007     Document Type: Article

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