Activity rates with very heavy tails

Stochastic Processes and their Applications

Volumn 116, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 131-155

  Mikosch, Thomas ^a,b   Resnick, Sidney ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b MaPhySto   (Denmark)

^c School of Chemical and Molecular Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Infinite first moment; Regular variation; Stable L vy motion

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER NETWORKS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA PROCESSING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TIME AND MOTION STUDY;

DURATION TIMES; INFINITE FIRST MOMENT; REGULAR VARIATION;

DATA ACQUISITION;

EID: 30344486285     PISSN: 03044149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.spa.2005.08.003     Document Type: Article

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