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The article examines the asymptotic behavior of the first arrival time for homogeneous Markov random walks with a fixed stopping boundary. Conditions of convergence to exponential and gamma distributions are established. The results are applied to solve one problem of statistical control.
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Translated from Statisticheskie Metody, pp. 183–189, 1982.
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Chichagov, V.V. Asymptotic behavior of the first arrival time in Markovian random walks. J Math Sci 39, 2944–2948 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01092349
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01092349