Characterizations of generalized hyperexponential distribution functions
Communications in Statistics Stochastic ModelsPublished 1 January 1987
Robert F. Botta, Carl M. Harris, William G. Marchal
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Abstract This paper examines in detail the class of generalized hyperexponential (GH) probability distribution functions. The family is compared to and contrasted with similar popular classes of distributions used in stochastic modeling. Each of these families arises from a desire to preserve the computationally attractive feature of "memorylessness" possessed by the exponential probability distribution while extending the representations to a broader class in order to approximate an arbitrary probability distribution function. Thus the simple structure and attractive properties of the GH probability distribution functions are presented with a view toward facilitating the mathematical operations which frequently occur in practice.
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