A General Pure Death Process Model and the Distribution of Time Required to Remove Fixed Number of Elements | ||
The Egyptian Statistical Journal | ||
Volume 31, Issue 1, June 1987, Pages 26-34 PDF (4.81 M) | ||
Document Type: Original Article | ||
DOI: 10.21608/esju.1987.428891 | ||
Author | ||
E.M. Shoukry* | ||
Institute of Statistical Studies and Research, Cairo University. Egypt | ||
Abstract | ||
The present work derives the distribution or the time required to remove a fixed number of elements W<N treating the problem as a pure death process with general death rate µn and initial number of elements N. The mean and variance of the distribution time are also obtained. The special case W,-N is considered. Sobel and el (1985) turns out to be a special case of our results. | ||
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