Moments of Absorption Time for a Conditioned Random Walk

DOI10.1002/sapm197960183zbMath0413.60062OpenAlexW2139290930MaRDI QIDQ3048015

Michael S. Waterman, William A. Beyer

Publication date: 1979

Published in: Studies in Applied Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1002/sapm197960183

zbMATH Keywords

tumor growthrandom walkabsorption timemultigene evolution

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Sums of independent random variables; random walks (60G50) Branching processes (Galton-Watson, birth-and-death, etc.) (60J80) General biology and biomathematics (92B05)

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Moments in the duration of play ⋮ Gambler's ruin and winning a series by \(m\) games ⋮ Variance of the game duration in the gambler's ruin problem

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• The combinatorics of random walk with absorbing barriers
• Conditional Expectation of the Duration in the Classical Ruin Problem
• Symmetries for Conditioned Ruin Problems
• The probability distribution of the duration of the game in the classical ruin problem

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