Quasistationary distributions for level-dependent quasi-birth-and-death processes

Communications in Statistics. Part C: Stochastic Models

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 511-541

  Bean, N G ^a   Pollett, P K ^b   Taylor, P G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Limiting conditional distributions; Quasi birth and death process; Quasistationary distributions; invariant measures

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037886167     PISSN: 08820287     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15326340008807602     Document Type: Article

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