Geometric decay of the steady-state probabilities in a quasi-birth-and-death process with a countable number of phases

Communications in Statistics. Part C: Stochastic Models

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 1-24

  Takahashi, Yukio ^a   Fujimoto, Kou ^a   Makimoto, Naoki ^b  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

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EID: 3543124866     PISSN: 08820287     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1081/stm-100001397     Document Type: Article

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