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Poisson Process

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This chapter is devoted to some basic properties of Poisson processes that will be intensively used in the rest of the book.

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Cha, J.H., Finkelstein, M. (2018). Poisson Process. In: Point Processes for Reliability Analysis. Springer Series in Reliability Engineering. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73540-5_4

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