@InProceedings{fackrell:DagSemProc.07461.4, author = {Fackrell, Mark}, title = {{Characterizing Coxian Distributions of Algebraic Degree q and Triangular Order p}}, booktitle = {Numerical Methods for Structured Markov Chains}, pages = {1--10}, series = {Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings (DagSemProc)}, ISSN = {1862-4405}, year = {2008}, volume = {7461}, editor = {Dario Bini and Beatrice Meini and Vaidyanathan Ramaswami and Marie-Ange Remiche and Peter Taylor}, publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik}, address = {Dagstuhl, Germany}, URL = {https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/DagSemProc.07461.4}, URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-13916}, doi = {10.4230/DagSemProc.07461.4}, annote = {Keywords: Phase-type distribution, Coxian distribution, algebraic degree, triangular order, rational Laplace-Stieltjes transform} }