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A note on integrals for birth-death processes
1Department of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Western Australia, Nedlands, WA 6907, Australia. stefanov@maths.uwa.edu.aurh
Mathematical Biosciences
|December 21, 2000
Abstract:
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.