title: Stochastic compartment models with Prendville growth rates.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Statistics, Texas A&M University, College Station 77843-3143, USA. matis@stat.tamu.edu
authors.forename: J H
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Matis
authors.forename: T R
authors.initials: TR
authors.lastname: Kiffe
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D003411:Arvicolinae; D001516:Bees; D003643:Death; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D011158:Population Growth; D013269:Stochastic Processes