ZIPF AND LERCH LIMIT OF BIRTH AND DEATH PROCESSES

DOI10.1017/S0269964809990179zbMath1192.60096OpenAlexW2088022082WikidataQ60430069 ScholiaQ60430069MaRDI QIDQ5305598

Norbert Henze, Bernhard Klar, P. R. Parthasarathy

Publication date: 22 March 2010

Published in: Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0269964809990179

zbMATH Keywords

speed of convergencebirth and death processLerch distributionsurvival and dispersal processes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Branching processes (Galton-Watson, birth-and-death, etc.) (60J80)

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