Hirano, Katuomi; Aki, Sigeo - In: Statistics & Probability Letters 65 (2003) 3, pp. 259-262
The exact distribution of the number of occurrences of subpattern of a specified length or larger until the first occurrence of a pattern is studied in a sequence of multi-state independent trials. If the pattern and the subpattern of the specified lengths, respectively, satisfy a condition and...