Article ID: | iaor19881268 |
Country: | United States |
Volume: | 14 |
Issue: | 2 |
Start Page Number: | 281 |
End Page Number: | 293 |
Publication Date: | May 1989 |
Journal: | Mathematics of Operations Research |
Authors: | Niu Shun-Chen, Cooper Robert B. |
The authors generalize the classical ballot theorem and use it to obtain direct probabilistic derivations of some well-known and some new results relating to busy and idle periods and waiting times in