| Article ID: | iaor200537 |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Volume: | 17 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Start Page Number: | 47 |
| End Page Number: | 51 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 2003 |
| Journal: | Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences |
| Authors: | Ross Sheldon M. |
We relate two variants of the inspection paradox by showing that both represent the length of a renewal interval that contains a chosen point, the difference being in the way that point is chosen. We show, in both cases, that the length of the interval has a likelihood ratio larger than that of an ordinary renewal interval.