Waiting time distributions associated with runs of fixed length in two-state Markov chains

Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 123-139

  Koutras, M V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Distributions of order k; Negative binomial distributions; Success runs; Waiting time distributions

Indexed keywords

EID: 9844259463     PISSN: 00203157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1003118807148     Document Type: Article

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