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The Basic Storage Model

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Stochastic Storage Processes

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The models described in this chapter give rise to continuous time stochastic processes that are analogous to sums of independent and identically distributed random variables. We begin by describing models for two apparently different situations.

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Prabhu, N.U. (1998). The Basic Storage Model. In: Stochastic Storage Processes. Applications of Mathematics, vol 15. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-1742-8_5

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