An extension of Spitzer's integral representation theorem with an application

DOI10.1214/aop/1176992092zbMath0626.60080OpenAlexW2079926623MaRDI QIDQ580824

Abdulhamid A. Alzaid, C. Radhakrishna Rao, Damodar N. Shanbhag

Publication date: 1987

Published in: The Annals of Probability (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1214/aop/1176992092

zbMATH Keywords

damage modelsBernstein's theorem on absolutely monotone functionsRao- Rubin conditionSpitzer's integral representation for the discrete branching process

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Probability distributions: general theory (60E05) Characterization and structure theory of statistical distributions (62E10) Branching processes (Galton-Watson, birth-and-death, etc.) (60J80)

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