A basic result on the integral for birth-death Markov processes

Mathematical Biosciences

Volumn 161, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 95-104

  Hernández Suárez, Carlos M ^a   Castillo Chavez, Carlos ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE COLIMA   (Mexico)

^b Warren Hall 435 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Absorbing Markov processes; Birth death processes; Integrals of Markov processes; Queuing theory

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIRTH; DEATH; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; METHODOLOGY; PROBABILITY; STOCHASTIC MODEL; SYSTEM ANALYSIS;

BIRTH RATE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MARKOV CHAINS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; MORTALITY; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; SYSTEMS THEORY;

EID: 0032741459     PISSN: 00255564     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0025-5564(99)00034-6     Document Type: Article

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