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Abstract. In this article we consider infinite sequences of Bernoulli trials and study the exact and asymptotic distribution of the number of failures and the number of successes observed before the r-th appearance of a pair of successes separated by a pre-specified number of failures. Several formulae are provided for the probability mass function, probability generating function and moments of the distribution along with some asymptotic results and a Poisson limit theorem. A number of interesting applications in various areas of applied science are also discussed.
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Chadjiconstantinidis, S., Koutras, M.V. Distributions of the Numbers of Failures and Successes in a Waiting Time Problem. Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics 53, 576–598 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1014637600574
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