Joint distributions of runs in a sequence of multi-state trials

Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 419-447

  Han, Qing ^a,b   Aki, Sigeo ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Distributions of order k; Markov chain imbedding; Multi state trials; Probability generating function; Run statistics; Waiting time problem

Indexed keywords

EID: 6544244576     PISSN: 00203157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1003941920316     Document Type: Article

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