Regenerative process

Regenerative processes have been used to model problems in inventory control. The inventory in a warehouse such as this one decreases via a stochastic process due to sales until it gets replenished by a new order.[1]

In applied probability, a regenerative process is a class of stochastic process with the property that certain portions of the process can be treated as being statistically independent of each other.[2] This property can be used in the derivation of theoretical properties of such processes.

  1. ^ Hurter, A. P.; Kaminsky, F. C. (1967). "An Application of Regenerative Stochastic Processes to a Problem in Inventory Control". Operations Research. 15 (3): 467–472. doi:10.1287/opre.15.3.467. JSTOR 168455.
  2. ^ Ross, S. M. (2010). "Renewal Theory and Its Applications". Introduction to Probability Models. pp. 421–641. doi:10.1016/B978-0-12-375686-2.00003-0. ISBN 9780123756862.