Meda: mixed erlang distributions as phase-type representations of empirical distribution functions.

DOI10.1080/15326349208807217zbMath0749.60012OpenAlexW2031894686MaRDI QIDQ4009179

Leonhard Schmickler

Publication date: 27 September 1992

Published in: Communications in Statistics. Stochastic Models (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/15326349208807217

zbMATH Keywords

approximation methodcommunication networksErlang distributionsempirical momentsnonlinear programming algorithm

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Probability distributions: general theory (60E05) Applications of Markov renewal processes (reliability, queueing networks, etc.) (60K20)

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