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On the theory of birth, death and diffusion processes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2016

A. W. Davis
A. W. Davis*
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Australian National University
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Several authors have recently discussed the asymptotic properties of stochastic populations which diffuse randomly throughout a given region. Sevast'yanov ([8], [9]) has investigated the extinction probability of a Markovian population in a compact region with an absorbing boundary, his analysis being in terms of “generation times”. Adke and Moyal have considered the spatial dispersion of a population which multiplies according to a simple time-dependent birth-and-death process and undergoes Gaussian diffusion on the real line ([2] and [3]) or on a finite interval with reflecting boundaries [1]. A serious limitation in Adke and Moyal's asymptotic results is that they are conditional upon a finite number of survivors. Moyal [7] has also obtained some basic formulae for a Markovian population diffusing through a general space.

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Journal of Applied Probability , Volume 2 , Issue 2 , December 1965 , pp. 293 - 322
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Copyright © Applied Probability Trust 

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