On the unimodality of passage time densities in birth-death processes

DOI10.1111/j.1467-9574.1981.tb00710.xzbMath0453.60074OpenAlexW2090154127MaRDI QIDQ3900775

Julian Keilson

Publication date: 1981

Published in: Statistica Neerlandica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9574.1981.tb00710.x

zbMATH Keywords

birth-death processunimodality of passage time densities

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Probability distributions: general theory (60E05) Branching processes (Galton-Watson, birth-and-death, etc.) (60J80)

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