Finite birth-and-death models in randomly changing environments
- 1 December 1984
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Advances in Applied Probability
- Vol. 16 (4) , 715-731
- https://doi.org/10.2307/1427338
Abstract
An efficient computational approach to the analysis of finite birth-and-death models in a Markovian environment is given. The emphasis is upon obtaining numerical methods for evaluating stationary distributions and moments of first-passage times.Keywords
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