Computable Bounds for the Decay Parameter of a Birth–Death Process

DOI10.1239/jap/1183667415zbMath1203.60132OpenAlexW2147057337MaRDI QIDQ5443745

David Sirl, Hanjun Zhang, Philip K. Pollett

Publication date: 22 February 2008

Published in: Journal of Applied Probability (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1239/jap/1183667415

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Probabilistic models, generic numerical methods in probability and statistics (65C20) Branching processes (Galton-Watson, birth-and-death, etc.) (60J80) Continuous-time Markov processes on discrete state spaces (60J27)

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Generating Birth and Death Processes ⋮ Speed of stability for birth-death processes ⋮ Convergence rate estimates for countable Markov chains with absorption at zero ⋮ Asymptotic Expansions for Stationary Distributions of Perturbed Semi-Markov Processes ⋮ Spectral properties of birth-death polynomials ⋮ Computable Bounds on the Spectral Gap for Unreliable Jackson Networks

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