A canonical representation of order 3 phase type distributions

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 4748 LNCS, Issue , 2007, Pages 48-62

  Horváth, Gábor ^a   Telek, Miklós ^a  

^a BUDAPEST UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY AND ECONOMICS   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Canonical form; Moment bounds; Phase type distribution

Indexed keywords

MATRIX ALGEBRA; NUMERICAL METHODS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; THEOREM PROVING; VECTOR QUANTIZATION;

CANONICAL FORM; MOMENT BOUNDS; PHASE TYPE DISTRIBUTION;

PROBLEM SOLVING;

EID: 38149107557     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-75211-0_5     Document Type: Conference Paper

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