"Chia C Chong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message ah3mj9$lpj$[EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:ah3mj9$lpj$[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > Hi! > I read some stochastic books on B-D process. Most of them stated that > "birth" means increase a population (for e.g.) by "1" and "death" means > decrease a population by "1". My question is, if for a particular time > interval, I have more than 1 death & 1 birth, does this implies that I can't > apply the simple B-D process for my case? If yes, what are the more > appropriate stochastic process that I need to look into? > > Thanks so much/ > > > Regards, > CCC > > > Do a search on compound Poisson processes. Interarrival times are negatively exponentially distributed, but the number of arrivals can be a scalar or even a vector. Similar, but more complicated processes can be used to model deaths. Do a search on batch service queues.
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