UPPER AND LOWER BOUNDS ON THE RATE OF CONVERGENCE FOR NONHOMOGENEOUS BIRTH AND DEATH PROCESSES

Authors
ZEIFMAN AI
Citation
Ai. Zeifman, UPPER AND LOWER BOUNDS ON THE RATE OF CONVERGENCE FOR NONHOMOGENEOUS BIRTH AND DEATH PROCESSES, Stochastic processes and their applications, 59(1), 1995, pp. 157-173
Citations number
13
Categorie Soggetti
Statistic & Probability","Statistic & Probability
Journal title
Stochastic processes and their applications → ACNP
ISSN journal
03044149
Volume
59
Issue
1
Year of publication
1995
Pages
157 - 173
Database
ISI
SICI code
0304-4149(1995)59:1<157:UALBOT>2.0.ZU;2-I
Abstract
We consider nonhomogeneous birth and death processes and obtain upper and lower bounds on the rate of convergence. Homogeneous birth and dea th processes and birth and death processes on a finite state space are studied as special cases.