Families of birth-death processes with similar time-dependent behaviour

DOI10.1239/jap/1014842840zbMath0973.60087OpenAlexW2120506340MaRDI QIDQ4529145

P. R. Parthasarathy, Werner R. W. Scheinhardt, R. B. Lenin, Erik A. van Doorn

Publication date: 18 November 2001

Published in: Journal of Applied Probability (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://semanticscholar.org/paper/eee3cc8819ac4cf1943d9d1d73dfa8a4f8c08129

zbMATH Keywords

birth-death processestransition functionabsorption probabilityinvariant vectorchain sequence

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Branching processes (Galton-Watson, birth-and-death, etc.) (60J80)

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