5.2. Consider a birth and death process on the states 0, 1, ... , 5 with parameters...

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5.2. Consider a birth and death process on the states 0, 1, ... , 5 with parameters

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Note that 0 and 5 are absorbing states. Suppose the process begins in state X(0) = 2.

(a) What is the probability of eventual absorption in state 0?

(b) What is the mean time to absorption?

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An Introduction To Stochastic Modeling

ISBN: 9780126848878

3rd Edition

Authors: Samuel Karlin, Howard M. Taylor

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