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The structure of elementary pure birth processes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2016

Dietmar Pfeifer*
Affiliation:
Technical University, Aachen
*
Postal address: Institut für Statistik und Wirtschaftsmathematik, RWTH Aachen, Wüllnerstrasse 3, D-5100 Aachen, W. Germany.

Abstract

A complete characterization of elementary pure birth processes is given by means of record counting processes from independent (non-identically) distributed random variables.

Type
Short Communications
Copyright
Copyright © Applied Probability Trust 1982 

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