On expected durations of birth-death processes with applications to branching processes and SIS epidemics
(2016)
Journal Article
Ball, F., Britton, T., & Neal, P. (2016). On expected durations of birth-death processes with applications to branching processes and SIS epidemics. Journal of Applied Probability, 53(1), https://doi.org/10.1017/jpr.2015.19
We study continuous-time birth–death type processes, where individuals have independent and identically distributed lifetimes, according to a random variable Q, with E[Q] = 1, and where the birth rate if the population is currently in state (has size... Read More about On expected durations of birth-death processes with applications to branching processes and SIS epidemics.