The Waiting Time Distribution

Computers and Industrial Engineering

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 693-699

  Nadarajah, Saralees ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Gamma distribution; Industrial engineering; Pareto distribution; Waiting time

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; PROBLEM SOLVING;

GAMMA DISTRIBUTION; PARETO DISTRIBUTION; WAITING TIME;

TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

EID: 35348898333     PISSN: 03608352     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cie.2007.06.004     Document Type: Article

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