David G. Kendall

Thinkers1918 to 2007Probabilist

Works

  • Stochastic Processes Occurring in the Theory of Queues and their Analysis by the Method of the Imbedded Markov Chain, Annals of Mathematical Statistics 24(3), 1953

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A British probabilist and statistician. His 1953 paper analyzed queues through an imbedded Markov chain and proposed the A/S/c notation for arrival process, service distribution, and number of servers, still used to name queueing models such as M/M/1.

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