Abstract:
:Under the influence of randomly occurring disasters, the eventual extinction probability, q, of a birth and death process, Z, is a random variable. In this paper, we obtain an integral expression for the probability density function g(x) of q under the assumption that the population process Z is a time homogeneous linear birth and death process and the disasters occur according to an arbitrary renewal process so that its interarrival times have a density. An example is provided to demonstrate how to evaluate the integral numerically.
journal_name
Math Bioscijournal_title
Mathematical biosciencesauthors
Lee Cdoi
10.1016/s0025-5564(99)00059-0subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2000-03-01 00:00:00pages
93-102issue
1eissn
0025-5564issn
1879-3134pii
S0025-5564(99)00059-0journal_volume
164pub_type
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