Analysis of data from a series of events by a geometric process model

Acta Mathematicae Applicatae Sinica

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 263-282

  Lam, Yeh ^a,b   Zhu, Li Xing ^b,c   Chan, Jennifer S K ^b   Liu, Qun ^a  

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY AT QINHUANGDAO   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Geometric process; Hazard function; Limiting distribution; Nonhomogeneous poisson process; Renewal process; The lindeberg feller theorem

Indexed keywords

EID: 42349096294     PISSN: 01689673     EISSN: 16183932     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10255-004-0167-x     Document Type: Article

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