Distributions of the numbers of failures and successes in a waiting time problem

Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 576-598

  Chadjiconstantinidis, Stathis ^a   Koutras, Markos V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PIRAEUS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Partial fraction expansions; Poisson limit theorems; Scan statistics; Success runs; Unimodality; Waiting times

Indexed keywords

EID: 6644226477     PISSN: 00203157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1014637600574     Document Type: Article

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