TEST FOR A CHANGE POINT IN POISSON PROCESS WITH APPLICATIONS TO THE BRITISH COAL MINING DISASTERS AND THE AIR TRAFFIC FLOW DATA SET

Ayten Yiğiter and Ceyhan İnal

Received July 15, 2009

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Keywords and phrases: change point, likelihood ratio, Poisson process.