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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2007 ii Paper 1 26J b Solution by
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Within each stream every subsequent gap is the sum of three consecutive original exponential random variables, hence has an Erlang distribution of shape three and rate . Successive gaps within that stream use disjoint original gaps, so they are independent and identically distributed, and independent of its first delay. Gaps from different streams can overlap in their constituent original gaps, so the three streams are not independent.
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