Extinction Probability in A Birth-Death Process with Killing

DOI10.1239/jap/1110381380zbMath1083.60071OpenAlexW2096973689MaRDI QIDQ5312850

Erik A. van Doorn, Alexander I. Zejfman

Publication date: 25 August 2005

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1239/jap/1110381380

zbMATH Keywords

rate of convergenceabsorptionpersistence timeextinction timelogarithmic normdecay parameter

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Branching processes (Galton-Watson, birth-and-death, etc.) (60J80) Continuous-time Markov processes on discrete state spaces (60J27)

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