Mainza Mbokoma

PhD student

Research in mathematical statistics

I study limiting behaviours of longest gaps between arrival epochs in Poisson processes (for homogeneous and inhomogeneous processes).

I also study asymptotics for large deviation probabilities of the longest gap in a homogeneous Poisson process.

Publications

2023

Zhenxia Liu, Mainza Mbokoma (2023)

An improvement on the large deviations for longest runs in Markov chains Statistics and Probability Letters, Vol. 193, Article 109737 (Article in journal)

https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.spl.2022.109737

Supervisor

Xiangfeng Yang

Associate Professor, Docent

Organisation

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Applied Mathematics (TIMA)

Applied mathematics is used to study advanced methods for modeling in technology as well as natural and social sciences. The division conducts research in computational mathematics, mathematical statistics and optimization.

Department of Mathematics (MAI)

The department conducts research in computational mathematics, mathematics and applied mathematics, mathematical statistics, and optimization. We provide courses to students in most degree programmes in mathematics, science and engineering.