A note on unicyclic representations of phase type distributions

Stochastic Models

Volumn 21, Issue 2-3, 2005, Pages 465-483

  He, Qi Ming ^a   Zhang, Hanqin ^b  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Matrix analytic methods; Phase type distribution; Probability distribution

Indexed keywords

MATRIX ALGEBRA; NONLINEAR PROGRAMMING; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

MATRIX ANALYTIC METHODS; PHASE TYPE DISTRIBUTION; UNICYCLIC REPRESENTATION;

ALGORITHMS;

EID: 27944466017     PISSN: 15326349     EISSN: 15324214     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1081/STM-200057131     Document Type: Conference Paper

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