Approximating quasistationary distributions of birth-death processes

Journal of Applied Probability

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1036-1051

  Clancy, Damian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cumulant closure; Logistic population growth; Moment closure; SIS epidemic model

Indexed keywords

EID: 84903774687     PISSN: 00219002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1239/jap/1354716656     Document Type: Article

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