EXPLOITING THE WAITING TIME PARADOX: APPLICATIONS OF THE SIZE-BIASING TRANSFORMATION

DOI10.1017/S026996480606013XzbMath1119.60073MaRDI QIDQ3431057

Mark Brown

Publication date: 5 April 2007

Published in: Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

renewal process; large diviations; renewal length distribution

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

60F10: Large deviations

60K05: Renewal theory

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