Matching three moments with minimal acyclic phase type distributions

Stochastic Models

Volumn 21, Issue 2-3, 2005, Pages 303-326

  Bobbio, A ^a   Horvath A ^b   Telek, M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN PIEDMONT   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^c BUDAPEST UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY AND ECONOMICS   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Acyclic phase type distributions; Moment bounds; Moment fitting

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS;

CONTINUOUS TIME PHASE TYPE (PH) DISTRIBUTIONS; MOMENT BOUNDS; MOMENT FITTING;

METHOD OF MOMENTS;

EID: 27944499280     PISSN: 15326349     EISSN: 15324214     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1081/STM-200056210     Document Type: Conference Paper

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