A generic property of phase-type representations
- 1 December 2002
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Journal of Applied Probability
- Vol. 39 (4) , 775-785
- https://doi.org/10.1239/jap/1037816018
Abstract
In this paper we introduce the notion of structured phase-type representations. A structured representation corresponds to a class of phase-type representations having the same graph but free parameters. We define a generic property for such a representation. Then we prove that, generically, an irreducible structured representation of a given order corresponds to a distribution whose degree is equal to this order.Keywords
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