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Applications of Discrete-time Markov Chains and Poisson Processes to Air Pollution Modeling and Studies

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In this chapter we consider some counting processes more general than the Poisson process to study the distribution of the time between surpassings of a given environmental standard.

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Rodrigues, E.R., Achcar, J.A. (2012). Some Counting Processes and Ozone Air Pollution. In: Applications of Discrete-time Markov Chains and Poisson Processes to Air Pollution Modeling and Studies. SpringerBriefs in Mathematics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-4645-3_5

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