Statistics for the Luria-Delbrück distribution

Electronic Journal of Statistics

Volumn 6, Issue , 2012, Pages 1251-1272

  Hamon, Agnès ^a   Ycart, Bernard ^a  

^a UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

Author keywords

Luria Delbr ck distribution; fluctuation analysis; Bellman Harris branching process; probability generating function estimator

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875403848     PISSN: 19357524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/12-EJS711     Document Type: Article

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