Closed-form approximations of first-passage distributions for a stochastic decision-making model

Applied Mathematics Research eXpress

Volumn 2009, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 123-141

  Broderick, Tamara ^a   Wong Lin, Kong Fatt ^b   Holmes, Philip ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Princeton University   (United States)

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EID: 77949503458     PISSN: 16871200     EISSN: 16871197     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/amrx/abp008     Document Type: Article

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