It was written by David Cox and Valerie Isham, and published in 1980 by Chapman & Hall in their Monographs on Applied Probability and Statistics book series.
Instead, its aim is to present the properties and descriptions of several specific processes arising in applications of this theory,[2][3][4][5] which had not been previously collected in texts in this area.
The second chapter provides some general theory including stationarity, orderliness (meaning that the probability of multiple arrivals in short intervals is sublinear in the interval length), Palm distributions, Fourier analysis, and probability-generating functions.
[2] It could also be used to provide additional examples for a course on stochastic processes, or as the basis for an advanced seminar.
[3] Writing some ten years after its original publication, reviewer Fergus Daly of The Open University writes that his copy has been well used, and that it "still is a very good book: lucid, relevant and still not matched in its approach by any other text".