Asymptotic behavior of a metapopulation model

Annals of Applied Probability

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 1306-1338

  Barbour, A D ^a   Pugliese, A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Metapopulation process; Stochastic comparison; Structured population model; Threshold theorem

Indexed keywords

EID: 33748335704     PISSN: 10505164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/105051605000000070     Document Type: Article

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