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Exact Results and Bounds for the Joint Tail and Moments of the Recurrence Times in a Renewal Process

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  • Sotirios Losidis

    (University of Piraeus)

  • Konstadinos Politis

    (University of Piraeus)

  • Georgios Psarrakos

    (University of Piraeus)

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The best known result about the joint distribution of the backward and forward recurrence times in a renewal process concerns the asymptotic behavior for the tail of that bivariate distribution. In the present paper we study the joint behavior of the recurrence times at a fixed time point t, and we obtain both exact results and bounds for their joint tail behavior. We also obtain results about the joint moments of these two random variables and we show in particular that the expectation of the product between the two recurrence times increases with time when the interarrival distribution has a decreasing failure rate. The results are illustrated by some numerical examples.

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  • Sotirios Losidis & Konstadinos Politis & Georgios Psarrakos, 2021. "Exact Results and Bounds for the Joint Tail and Moments of the Recurrence Times in a Renewal Process," Methodology and Computing in Applied Probability, Springer, vol. 23(4), pages 1489-1505, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:metcap:v:23:y:2021:i:4:d:10.1007_s11009-020-09787-w
    DOI: 10.1007/s11009-020-09787-w
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