Estimating mixtures of exponential distributions using maximum likelihood and the EM algorithm to improve simulation of telecommunications networks

This thesis explores the topic of mixture-distributions as they relate to modeling call demand on a telecommunications network. Modeling call duration demand in particular proves difficult for a number of reasons. Historically, this has been modeled using a simple exponential distribution with a...

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Main Author: Baird, Sean Robert
Language:English
Published: 2009
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/13868