Brown, Mark; Chaganty, Narasinga R. On the first passage time distribution for a class of Markov chains. (English) Zbl 0529.60069 Ann. Probab. 11, 1000-1008 (1983). Page: −5 −4 −3 −2 −1 ±0 +1 +2 +3 +4 +5 Show Scanned Page Cited in 3 ReviewsCited in 12 Documents MSC: 60J10 Markov chains (discrete-time Markov processes on discrete state spaces) 60K10 Applications of renewal theory (reliability, demand theory, etc.) 60E05 Probability distributions: general theory Keywords:increasing failure rate; stochastically monotone Markov chain; first passage time; coherent systems; shock models PDF BibTeX XML Cite \textit{M. Brown} and \textit{N. R. Chaganty}, Ann. Probab. 11, 1000--1008 (1983; Zbl 0529.60069) Full Text: DOI OpenURL