Extinction Times for Birth-Death Processes: Exact Results, Continuum Asymptotics, and the Failure of the Fokker-Planck Approximation

Preprint Year: 
2004
Paper Number: 
04-014
Activity: 
PATTERN03
Author(s): 
Khachik V. Sargsyan, Leonard M. Sander, R. Doering
Date: 
01/29/2004