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 OJMSi  Vol.3 No.3 , July 2015
Some New Results on the Number of Paths
Beih S. El-Desouky1, Abdelfattah Mustafa1, E. M. Mahmoud2
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Abstract: Khidr and El-Desouky [1] derived a symmetric sum involving the Stirling numbers of the first kind through the process of counting the number of paths along a rectangular array n*m denoted by  Anm. We investigate the generating function for the general case and hence some special cases as well. The probability function of the number of paths along is obtained. Moreover, the moment generating function of the random variable X and hence the mean and variance are obtained. Finally, some applications are introduced.
Keywords: Stirling Numbers, Generating Function, Moment Generating Function, Comtet Numbers, Maple Program
Cite this paper: El-Desouky, B. , Mustafa, A. and Mahmoud, E. (2015) Some New Results on the Number of Paths. Open Journal of Modelling and Simulation, 3, 63-69. doi: 10.4236/ojmsi.2015.33007.
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0195-6698(84)80018-9

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[6]   Cakic, N.P., El-Desouky, B.S. and Milovanovic, G.V. (2013) Explicit Formulas and Combinatorial Identities for Generalized Stirling Numbers. Mediterranean Journal of Mathematics, 10, 57-72.
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