Asymptotic behavior of absorbing Markov chains conditional on nonabsorption for applications in conservation biology

Annals of Applied Probability

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 261-284

  Gosselin, Frédéric ^a,b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b Cemagref   (France)

Author keywords

Absorbing set; Density dependence population size dependent Bienaym Galton Watson branching processes; Extinction; Homogeneous Markov chain; Nonnegative operator; Quasi compact linear operator; Quasi stationary distribution; Yaglom limit

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035593503     PISSN: 10505164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/aoap/998926993     Document Type: Article

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