On a class of approximations for ruin and waiting time probabilities

DOI10.1016/S0167-6377(97)00046-1zbMath0911.90172MaRDI QIDQ1267184

Gordon E. Willmot

Publication date: 6 October 1998

Published in: Operations Research Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

queue; ruin probability; gamma distribution; IFR; compound geometric distribution; NWUC; NBUC; Cramer-Lundberg asymptotics; ruin and waiting time probabilities; tail corrections; Tijms-type approximations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

60K25: Queueing theory (aspects of probability theory)

90B22: Queues and service in operations research

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