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On almost sure convergence of an erosion process due to Todorovic and Gani

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2016

Prem S. Puri*
Affiliation:
Purdue University
*
Postal address: Department of Statistics, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA.

Abstract

The questions of almost sure convergence of the sequence Xn defined below in (1) as well as that of to a finite limit are settled here. These sequences arise in a simple stochastic model for crop erosion considered by Todorovic and Gani (1987).

Type
Short Communications
Copyright
Copyright © Applied Probability Trust 1987 

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Footnotes

Research supported in part by U.S. National Science Foundation Grant No. DMS-8504319.

References

[1] Laha, R. G. and Rohatgi, V. K. (1979) Probability Theory . Wiley, New York.Google Scholar
[2] Todorovic, P. and Gani, J. (1987) Modelling the effect of erosion on crop production. J. Appl. Prob. 24, 787797.Google Scholar