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NONHOMOGENEOUS POISSON PROCESSES AND LOGCONCAVITY

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 2000

Franco Pellerey
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Matematica, Politecnico di Torino, Corso Duca degli Abruzzi, 24, 10129 Torino, Italy
Moshe Shaked
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Matematica, Politecnico di Torino, Corso Duca degli Abruzzi, 24, 10129 Torino, Italy
Joel Zinn
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Matematica, Politecnico di Torino, Corso Duca degli Abruzzi, 24, 10129 Torino, Italy
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In this article, we identify conditions under which the epoch times and the interepoch intervals of a nonhomogeneous Poisson process have logconcave densities. The results are extended to relevation counting processes. We also study discrete-time counting processes and find conditions under which the epoch times and the interepoch intervals of these discrete-time processes have logconcave discrete probability densities. The results are interpreted in terms of minimal repair and record values. Several examples illustrate the theory.

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© 2000 Cambridge University Press