Certain state-dependent processes for dichotomised parasite populations

Journal of Applied Probability - Tập 27 Số 2 - Trang 251-258 - 1990
Adrienne W. Kemp1, Jason Newton1
1University of St Andrews

Tóm tắt

The paper re-examines Quinn and MacGillivray's (1986) stationary birth-death process for a population of fixed size N consisting of two types of parasite, active and passive, and sets up a more elaborate model for the dichotomy between parasites on hosts with and without open wounds resulting from previous parasite attacks. The probability generating functions for the stationary count distributions are obtained, allowing limiting forms of the distributions to be investigated.

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