A note on integrals for birth-death processes.
A general integral for birth-death Markov processes is considered. A closed form expression is provided for its expected value in terms of the birth and death rates. A simple route for numerical evaluation of its variance is also suggested.
Stefanov
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Department of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Western Australia, Nedlands, WA 6907, Australia. stefanov@maths.uwa.edu.aurh
Wang
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D001723:Birth Rate; D004813:Epidemiology / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D008390:Markov Chains; D009026:Mortality; D009716:Numerical Analysis, Computer-Assisted