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Birth and death processes with random environments in continuous time

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 2016

Robert Cogburn
Affiliation:
(University of New Mexico)
William Torrez
Affiliation:
(University of California, Riverside)

Abstract

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Type
Ninth Conference on Stochastic Processes and their Applications, Evanston, Illinois, 6–10 August 1979
Copyright
Copyright © Applied Probability Trust 1980 

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