Hostname: page-component-77c89778f8-vsgnj Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-07-18T05:14:53.039Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

An order statistic characterization of the poisson renewal process

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2016

Uri Liberman*
Affiliation:
Tel-Aviv University
*
Postal address: Department of Statistics, Tel-Aviv University, Ramat-Aviv, Israel

Abstract

Using the characterization of point processes having the order statistic property we prove that the only renewal process that has the order statistic property is the Poisson process.

Type
Short Communications
Copyright
Copyright © Applied Probability Trust 1985 

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

Footnotes

Research supported in part by NIH grants GM 28016 and GM 10452.

References

Bailey, N. T. J. (1961) Introduction to the Mathematical Theory of Genetic Linkage. Clarendon Press, Oxford.Google Scholar
Cox, D. R. (1970) Renewal Theory. Methuen, London.Google Scholar
Crump, K. (1975) On point processes having an order statistic property. Sankhya A37, 396404.Google Scholar
Feigin, P. D. (1979) On the characterization of point processes with the order statistic property. J. Appl. Prob. 16, 297304.Google Scholar
Feller, W. (1966) An Introduction to Probability Theory and Its Applications, Vol. 2. Wiley, New York.Google Scholar
Jennings, H. S. (1923) The numerical relations in the crossing over of the genes with a critical examination of the theory that genes are arranged in a linear series. Genetics 8, 393457.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Karlin, S. and Liberman, U. (1979) A natural class of multilocus recombination processes and related measures of crossover interference. Adv. Appl. Prob. 11, 479501.Google Scholar
Nawrotzki, K. (1962) Eine Grenzwertsatz für homogene zufällige Punktfolgen. Math. Nachr. 24, 201217.Google Scholar
Owen, A. R. G. (1950) The theory of genetical recombination. Adv. Genet. 3, 111157.Google Scholar