Extinction probability in a birth-death process with killing

Journal of Applied Probability

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 185-198

  Van Doorn, Erik A ^a   Zeifman, Alexander I ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b VOLOGDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Absorption; Decay parameter; Extinction time; Logarithmic norm; Persistence time; Rate of convergence

Indexed keywords

EID: 14644433474     PISSN: 00219002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1239/jap/1110381380     Document Type: Article

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