Numbers of success-runs of specified length until certain stopping time rules and generalized binomial distributions of order k

Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 767-777

  Aki, Sigeo ^a   Hirano, Katuomi ^b  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b INSTITUTE OF STATISTICAL MATHEMATICS   (Japan)

Author keywords

Binomial distribution of order k; Markov chain; Probability generating function; Stopping time; Success run; Waiting time

Indexed keywords

EID: 6744227978     PISSN: 00203157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1017585512412     Document Type: Article

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