The age distribution of Markov processes
- 1 September 1977
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Journal of Applied Probability
- Vol. 14 (3) , 492-506
- https://doi.org/10.2307/3213452
Abstract
A limiting distribution for the age of a class of Markov processes is found if the present state of the process is known. We use this distribution to find the age of branching processes. Using the fact that the moments of the age of birth and death processes and of diffusion processes satisfy difference equations and differential equations respectively, we find simple formulas for these moments. For the Wright–Fisher genetic model we find the probability that a given allele is the oldest in the population if all the gene frequencies are known. The proofs of the main results are based on methods from renewal theory.Keywords
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