Fig. 7

Illustration of the renewal theory. Two different inter-arrival laws, with the same mean and variance, exhibit similar patterns: 1 binomial law (N = 9, b = 0.66), 2 shifted geometric law (d = 5, c = 0.5). They can be approximated with a binomial law whose parameters are deduced from the above parameters (N = 18, b = 0.94)