On the convergence to stationarity of birth-death processes

Journal of Applied Probability

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 696-706

  Coolen Schrijner, Pauline ^a   Van Doorn, Erik A ^b  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Birth death process; Speed of convergence

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035438327     PISSN: 00219002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1239/jap/1005091033     Document Type: Article

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