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Identities for passage times with applications to recurrent events and homogeneous differential functions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2016

John N. Darroch*
Affiliation:
University of Michigan

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Let x be a non-negative, non-decreasing, right-continuous function of t defined on the interval [O, T) and let A = x(T–). Define the function y on [O, A] by Then y is non-decreasing and left-continuous and If t is a time variable it is natural to call y the passage time function.

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Copyright © Applied Probability Trust 

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