Stochastic monotonicity and queueing applications of birth-death processes

zbMath0454.60069MaRDI QIDQ1149695

Erik A. van Doorn

Publication date: 1980

Published in: Lecture Notes in Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

birth-and-death processqueue length processstochastically increasing process

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Queueing theory (aspects of probability theory) (60K25) Branching processes (Galton-Watson, birth-and-death, etc.) (60J80) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to probability theory (60-02)

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