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On a multivariate generalized occupancy model

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2016

N. L. Johnson  and
Samuel Kotz
N. L. Johnson*
Affiliation:
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Samuel Kotz*
Affiliation:
Temple University, Philadelphia
*
*This research was sponsored by U. S. Army Research Office-Durham, under Grant Number DAH-C04–74-C-0030.
**This research was sponsored by U. S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research, under Grants Number 74–2701 and Number 75–2837.
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Abstract

A generalized occupancy distribution obtained by Uppuluri and Carpenter (1971) is derived by elementary methods, and extended to a multivariate situation.

Keywords

OCCUPANCY DISTRIBUTIONMULTIVARIATE DISTRIBUTION
Type
Short Communications
Information
Journal of Applied Probability , Volume 13 , Issue 2 , June 1976 , pp. 392 - 399
Copyright
Copyright © Applied Probability Trust 1976 

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