Stochastic compartment models with Prendville growth rates.
The Prendville growth mechanism, which assumes a linearly decreasing population growth rate, was generalized to a multicompartment system by Parthasarathy and Kumar. This article shows that their solution is only an approximate one. A diagnostic test is presented to indicate parameter vectors for which this first approximation is not very accurate. A second approximation, which overcomes some limitations of the first one, is developed and illustrated.
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Department of Statistics, Texas A&M University, College Station 77843-3143, USA. matis@stat.tamu.edu
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D000818:Animals; D003411:Arvicolinae; D001516:Bees; D003643:Death; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D011158:Population Growth; D013269:Stochastic Processes