On the asymptotic distribution of the discrete scan statistic

Journal of Applied Probability

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1137-1154

  Boutsikas, Michael V ^a   Koutras, Markos V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PIRAEUS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Compound poisson approximation; Discrete scan statistic; Erdos R nyi statistic; Extreme value theorem; Kolmogorov distance; Randomness test

Indexed keywords

EID: 33947244928     PISSN: 00219002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1239/jap/1165505213     Document Type: Article

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