A stochastic Gompertz birth-death process

W. Y. Tan

Statistics & Probability Letters, 1986, vol. 4, issue 1, 25-28

Abstract: This paper shows that the stochastic Gompertz birth-death process is a special case of nonhomogeneous birth and death processes. The absolute probability, the first four cumulants as well as absorption probabilities are then derived for these processes.

Keywords: absorption; probability; cancer; tumor; Gompertz; growth; function; nonhomogeneous; birth-death; process (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1986
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