Stochastic Population Theory: Birth and Death Processes

Birth and death processes were introduced by Feller (1939) and have since been used as models for population growth, queue formation, in epidemiology and in many other areas of both theoretical and applied interest. From the standpoint of the theory of stochastic processes they represent an important special case of Markov processes with countable state spaces and continuous parameters.

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