Approximation with generalized hyperexponential distributions: Weak convergence results

DOI10.1007/BF01536187zbMath0655.60012OpenAlexW2056712834MaRDI QIDQ1109405

R. F. Botta, Carl M. Harris

Publication date: 1986

Published in: Queueing Systems (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/bf01536187

zbMATH Keywords

phase-type distributionstopology of weak convergenceErlang distributionsgeneralized hyperexponential distributionmixtures of exponentials

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Probability distributions: general theory (60E05) Queueing theory (aspects of probability theory) (60K25) Convergence of probability measures (60B10) Limit theorems in probability theory (60F99)

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