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Shot noise generated by a semi-Markov process

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2016

Woollcott Smith*
Affiliation:
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
*
*Now at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Mass.

Abstract

In this note a model for shot noise generated by a semi-Markov process is developed. The moments of the shot noise process are found, and some applications of this model are briefly indicated.

Type
Short Communications
Copyright
Copyright © Applied Probability Trust 1973 

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Footnotes

Research partially supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. GU-2059 and by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research under Contract No. AFOSR-68-1415.

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