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First-passage times for the partial sums of a sequence of geometric distributions
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 July 2016
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It is shown here that questions about the probability distributions of the partial sums of a sequence of geometric distributions, all with different parameters, can be answered by considering the transition probabilities of a homogeneous Markov chain. The result is applied to the embedded random walk of an epidemic process.
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