Superposition of renewal processes with heavy-tailed interarrival times

Statistics and Probability Letters

Volumn 76, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 555-561

  Mitov, Kosto V ^a   Yanev, Nikolay M ^b  

^a MARSHALL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICS AND INFORMATICS   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

Heavy tails; Lifetimes; Limiting distributions; Renewal processes; Superposition

Indexed keywords

EID: 33344459899     PISSN: 01677152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.spl.2005.09.005     Document Type: Article

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