Filtering recursions for calculating likelihoods for queues based on inter-departure time data

Statistics and Computing

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 261-266

  Fearnhead, Paul ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Er G 1 queues; forward backward algorithm; indirect inference; likelihood recursions; M G 1 queues; missing data

Indexed keywords

EID: 3843089404     PISSN: 09603174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:STCO.0000035305.92337.80     Document Type: Article

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