Exploiting the waiting time paradox

Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 195-230

  Brown, Mark ^a  

^a CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING;

FIXED POINTS; RENEWAL PROCESS; SIZE-BIASING; WAITING TIME PARADOXES;

ENGINEERING;

EID: 33644921543     PISSN: 02699648     EISSN: 14698951     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s026996480606013x     Document Type: Article

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