On waiting time problems associated with runs in Markov dependent trials

Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 323-330

  Antzoulakos, Demetrios L ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PIRAEUS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Distributions of order k; Probability generating function; Probability mass function; Run; Sooner and later problems; Waiting time

Indexed keywords

EID: 6544263271     PISSN: 00203157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1003862225719     Document Type: Article

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