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TRANSIENT SOLUTION FOR A SIMPLE IMMIGRATION BIRTH–DEATH CATASTROPHE PROCESS

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 April 2004

E. G. Kyriakidis
Affiliation:
Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of the Aegean, Karlovassi, 83200 Samos, Greece, E-mail: [email protected]

Abstract

In this note, we consider a simple immigration birth–death process with total catastrophes and we obtain the transient probabilities. Our approach involves a renewal argument. It is comparatively simpler and leads to more elegant expressions than other approaches that appeared in the literature recently.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
© 2004 Cambridge University Press

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