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Many doctors believe that a patient will survive a heart attack unless a succeeding attack occurs in a week. Treating heart attacks as failures in Bernoulli trials we reduce the lifetime after a heart attack to the waiting time for the first failure followed by a success run shorter than a given k. In order to test the "true" critical period of the lifetime we need its distribution. The probability mass function and cumulative distribution function of the waiting time are expressed in explicit and concise form by binomial coefficients.
Czesław Stępniak. "On distribution of waiting time for the first failure followed by a limited length success run." Applicationes Mathematicae 40.4 (2013): 421-430. <http://eudml.org/doc/279985>.
@article{CzesławStępniak2013, abstract = {Many doctors believe that a patient will survive a heart attack unless a succeeding attack occurs in a week. Treating heart attacks as failures in Bernoulli trials we reduce the lifetime after a heart attack to the waiting time for the first failure followed by a success run shorter than a given k. In order to test the "true" critical period of the lifetime we need its distribution. The probability mass function and cumulative distribution function of the waiting time are expressed in explicit and concise form by binomial coefficients.}, author = {Czesław Stępniak}, journal = {Applicationes Mathematicae}, keywords = {heart attack; life time; Bernoulli trials; compound patterns; probability mass function; cumulative distribution functions}, language = {eng}, number = {4}, pages = {421-430}, title = {On distribution of waiting time for the first failure followed by a limited length success run}, url = {http://eudml.org/doc/279985}, volume = {40}, year = {2013}, }
TY - JOUR AU - Czesław Stępniak TI - On distribution of waiting time for the first failure followed by a limited length success run JO - Applicationes Mathematicae PY - 2013 VL - 40 IS - 4 SP - 421 EP - 430 AB - Many doctors believe that a patient will survive a heart attack unless a succeeding attack occurs in a week. Treating heart attacks as failures in Bernoulli trials we reduce the lifetime after a heart attack to the waiting time for the first failure followed by a success run shorter than a given k. In order to test the "true" critical period of the lifetime we need its distribution. The probability mass function and cumulative distribution function of the waiting time are expressed in explicit and concise form by binomial coefficients. LA - eng KW - heart attack; life time; Bernoulli trials; compound patterns; probability mass function; cumulative distribution functions UR - http://eudml.org/doc/279985 ER -