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The indeterminate rate problem for birth-death processes
Doorn van, Erik A. (1987) The indeterminate rate problem for birth-death processes. Pacific Journal of Mathematics, 130 (2). pp. 379-393. ISSN 0030-8730
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| Abstract: | A birth-death process is completely determined by its set of rates if and only if this set satisfies a certain condition C, say. If for a set of rates R the condition C is not fulfilled, then the problem arises of characterizing all birth-death processes which have rate set R (the indeterminate rate problem associated with R). We show that the characterization may be effected by means of the decay parameter, and we determine the set of possible values for the decay parameter in terms of JR. A fundamental role in our analysis is played by a duality concept for rate sets, which, if the pertinent rate sets satisfy C, obviously leads to a duality concept for birth-death processes. The latter can be stated in a form which suggests the possibility of extension in the context of indeterminate rate problems. This, however, is shown to be only partially true. |
| Item Type: | Article |
| Copyright: | © 1987 University of California Press |
| Faculty: | Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science (EEMCS) |
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| Link to this item: | http://purl.utwente.nl/publications/70377 |
| Official URL: | http://projecteuclid.org/euclid.pjm/1102690184 |
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