Combinatorial methods in discrete distributions

Combinatorial Methods in Discrete Distributions

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 1-415

  Charalambides, Charalambos A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

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MIXTURES;

COMBINATORIAL METHOD; CONDITIONAL DISTRIBUTION; DISCRETE DISTRIBUTION; FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES; MIXTURE DISTRIBUTIONS; OCCUPANCY NUMBER; PRACTICAL PROBLEMS; TRUNCATED DISTRIBUTIONS;

CONVOLUTION;

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DOI: 10.1002/0471733180     Document Type: Book

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