Birth and death process modeling leads to the poisson distribution: A journey worth taking

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Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 57-73

  Rash, Agnes M ^a   Winkel, Brian J ^b  

^a SAINT JOSEPH S UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNITED STATES MILITARY ACADEMY   (United States)

Author keywords

Applications; Assumptions; Birth and death process; Mathematical modeling; Poisson process; Teaching mathematics

Indexed keywords

EID: 68149094148     PISSN: 10511970     EISSN: 19354053     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10511970802475157     Document Type: Article

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