Distributions of numbers of success runs of fixed length in Markov dependent trials

Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 599-619

  Antzoulakos, Demetrios L ^a   Chadjiconstantinidis, Stathis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PIRAEUS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Binomial negative binomial distribution of order k; Markov chain; Moments; Probability generating function; Probability mass function; Success runs

Indexed keywords

EID: 6644224002     PISSN: 00203157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1014689617413     Document Type: Article

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