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The limiting behavior of transient birth and death processes conditioned on survival

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 April 2009

Phillip Good
Affiliation:
Information Research Associates, Inc. San Diego, Calif.
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The development of a population over time can often be simulated by the behavior of a birth and death process, whose transition probability matrix P(t) = (Pij(t), where X(t) denotes the number of individuals at time t, satisfies the differential equations and the initial condition

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Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 1968

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