title: An extension of the moment closure method.
abstract: The moment closure method was recently shown in Nåsell (Theor. Popul. Biol. 63 (2) (2003a) 159) to give asymptotic approximations of the first few cumulants for the stochastic logistic model. A slight extension of the method is introduced. It is shown to be robust with regard to the specific distributional assumption that is used to achieve moment closure. The phenomenon of spurious solutions is shown to be related to the domain of attraction of the non-spurious critical point.
authors.affiliation: Department of Mathematics, The Royal Institute of Technology, S-100 44 Stockholm, Sweden. ingemar@math.kth.se
authors.forename: Ingemar
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Nåsell
mesh_terms: D001723:Birth Rate; D016015:Logistic Models; D008390:Markov Chains; D008433:Mathematics; D009026:Mortality; D016011:Normal Distribution; D011156:Population Density; D011157:Population Dynamics; D013269:Stochastic Processes