Statistical inference for Mt/G/Infinity queueing systems under incomplete observations
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ejor.2019.06.055
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Queueing; Interval censored data; Maximum-likelihood estimation (MLE); Parametric bootstrap; Delta method;All these keywords.
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