Download or read book General Birth death Processes written by Forrest Wrenn Crawford and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A birth-death process is a continuous-time Markov chain that counts the number of particles in a system over time. Each particle can give birth to another particle or die, and the rate of births and deaths at any given time depends on how many extant particles there are. Birth-death processes are popular modeling tools in evolution, population biology, genetics, epidemiology, and ecology. Despite the widespread interest in birth-death models, no efficient method exists to evaluate the finite-time transition probabilities in a process with arbitrary birth and death rates. Statistical inference of the instantaneous particle birth and death rates also remains largely limited to continuously-observed processes in which per-particle birth and death rates are constant. The lack of theoretical progress in developing statistical tools for dealing with data from birth-death processes has hindered their adoption by applied researchers, and represents a major research frontier in statistical inference for stochastic processes. In this dissertation, I seek to fill this apparent void in three ways. First, I develop mathematical theory and computational tools for computing transition probabilities for general birth-death processes. Second, I develop algorithms for maximum likelihood estimation of rate parameters in discretely observed processes. Third, I derive probability distributions for characteristics of certain birth-death models that are fundamental in macroevolutionary studies. In each case, I give practical applications of the methodology, and show how unsolved problems can be attacked using these techniques.
Download or read book Stochastic Monotonicity and Queueing Applications of Birth Death Processes written by Erik van Doorn and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stochastic process {X(t): 0 S t =} with discrete state space S c ~ is said to be stochastically increasing (decreasing) on an interval T if the probabilities Pr{X(t) i}, i E S, are increasing (decreasing) with t on T. Stochastic monotonicity is a basic structural property for process behaviour. It gives rise to meaningful bounds for various quantities such as the moments of the process, and provides the mathematical groundwork for approximation algorithms. Obviously, stochastic monotonicity becomes a more tractable subject for analysis if the processes under consideration are such that stochastic mono tonicity on an inter val 0
Download or read book Discrete Stochastic Processes written by Robert G. Gallager and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stochastic processes are found in probabilistic systems that evolve with time. Discrete stochastic processes change by only integer time steps (for some time scale), or are characterized by discrete occurrences at arbitrary times. Discrete Stochastic Processes helps the reader develop the understanding and intuition necessary to apply stochastic process theory in engineering, science and operations research. The book approaches the subject via many simple examples which build insight into the structure of stochastic processes and the general effect of these phenomena in real systems. The book presents mathematical ideas without recourse to measure theory, using only minimal mathematical analysis. In the proofs and explanations, clarity is favored over formal rigor, and simplicity over generality. Numerous examples are given to show how results fail to hold when all the conditions are not satisfied. Audience: An excellent textbook for a graduate level course in engineering and operations research. Also an invaluable reference for all those requiring a deeper understanding of the subject.
Download or read book Nonhomogeneous Birth death Processes written by Michael Wang and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Birth and Death Processes written by Carole Harper McQuarrie and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Introduction to Stochastic Processes with Applications to Biology written by Linda J. S. Allen and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2010-12-02 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Introduction to Stochastic Processes with Applications to Biology, Second Edition presents the basic theory of stochastic processes necessary in understanding and applying stochastic methods to biological problems in areas such as population growth and extinction, drug kinetics, two-species competition and predation, the spread of epidemics, and
Download or read book Taylor Series Solution of Birth death Processes written by Daqing Guo and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Essentials of Stochastic Processes written by Richard Durrett and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-11-07 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Building upon the previous editions, this textbook is a first course in stochastic processes taken by undergraduate and graduate students (MS and PhD students from math, statistics, economics, computer science, engineering, and finance departments) who have had a course in probability theory. It covers Markov chains in discrete and continuous time, Poisson processes, renewal processes, martingales, and option pricing. One can only learn a subject by seeing it in action, so there are a large number of examples and more than 300 carefully chosen exercises to deepen the reader’s understanding. Drawing from teaching experience and student feedback, there are many new examples and problems with solutions that use TI-83 to eliminate the tedious details of solving linear equations by hand, and the collection of exercises is much improved, with many more biological examples. Originally included in previous editions, material too advanced for this first course in stochastic processes has been eliminated while treatment of other topics useful for applications has been expanded. In addition, the ordering of topics has been improved; for example, the difficult subject of martingales is delayed until its usefulness can be applied in the treatment of mathematical finance.
Download or read book Orthogonal Polynomials in the Spectral Analysis of Markov Processes written by Manuel Domínguez de la Iglesia and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-10-21 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In pioneering work in the 1950s, S. Karlin and J. McGregor showed that probabilistic aspects of certain Markov processes can be studied by analyzing orthogonal eigenfunctions of associated operators. In the decades since, many authors have extended and deepened this surprising connection between orthogonal polynomials and stochastic processes. This book gives a comprehensive analysis of the spectral representation of the most important one-dimensional Markov processes, namely discrete-time birth-death chains, birth-death processes and diffusion processes. It brings together the main results from the extensive literature on the topic with detailed examples and applications. Also featuring an introduction to the basic theory of orthogonal polynomials and a selection of exercises at the end of each chapter, it is suitable for graduate students with a solid background in stochastic processes as well as researchers in orthogonal polynomials and special functions who want to learn about applications of their work to probability.
Download or read book An Introduction to Stochastic Modeling written by Howard M. Taylor and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2014-05-10 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Introduction to Stochastic Modeling provides information pertinent to the standard concepts and methods of stochastic modeling. This book presents the rich diversity of applications of stochastic processes in the sciences. Organized into nine chapters, this book begins with an overview of diverse types of stochastic models, which predicts a set of possible outcomes weighed by their likelihoods or probabilities. This text then provides exercises in the applications of simple stochastic analysis to appropriate problems. Other chapters consider the study of general functions of independent, identically distributed, nonnegative random variables representing the successive intervals between renewals. This book discusses as well the numerous examples of Markov branching processes that arise naturally in various scientific disciplines. The final chapter deals with queueing models, which aid the design process by predicting system performance. This book is a valuable resource for students of engineering and management science. Engineers will also find this book useful.
Download or read book Certain Chance Mechanisms Related to Birth and Death Processes Which Have Classical Discrete Distributions as Special Cases written by Marllyn Tuley Boswell and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The paper is a study of birth and death processes. Little known results are brought together with well known results and some new results are found. A formula for the solution of a general birth and death process is found and the case where each birth rate factors into a function of the sizes of the population components and a function of time is solved. For the r-dimensional birth and death process where the birth and death rates factor as above and where all rates are linear, the solution is found to have either the negative multinomial, independent Poisson, or the multinomial distribution. A few related processes are studied. (Author).
Download or read book Birth and Death Processes written by and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Classification of Birth and Death Processes written by SAMUEL. KARLIN and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Birth and Death Processes with Periodic Variations in Birth and Death Rates written by Prem Singh Puri and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Indeterminate Rate Problem for Birth death Processes written by Erik A. van Doorn and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Asymptotic Properties of Permanental Sequences written by Michael B. Marcus and published by Springer. This book was released on 2021-03-31 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This SpringerBriefs employs a novel approach to obtain the precise asymptotic behavior at infinity of a large class of permanental sequences related to birth and death processes and autoregressive Gaussian sequences using techniques from the theory of Gaussian processes and Markov chains. The authors study alpha-permanental processes that are positive infinitely divisible processes determined by the potential density of a transient Markov process. When the Markov process is symmetric, a 1/2-permanental process is the square of a Gaussian process. Permanental processes are related by the Dynkin isomorphism theorem to the total accumulated local time of the Markov process when the potential density is symmetric, and by a generalization of the Dynkin theorem by Eisenbaum and Kaspi without requiring symmetry. Permanental processes are also related to chi square processes and loop soups. The book appeals to researchers and advanced graduate students interested in stochastic processes, infinitely divisible processes and Markov chains.
Download or read book Birth and Death Processes with Disasters written by Nan-Fu Peng and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
