Waiting time problems in a two-state Markov chain

Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 778-789

  Han, Qing ^a,b   Aki, Sigeo ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Discrete distributions of order k; Markov chain; Markov chain imbedding method; Probability generating function; Waiting time problems

Indexed keywords

EID: 6744242016     PISSN: 00203157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1017537629251     Document Type: Article

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