The classification of birth and death processes
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- © Copyright 1957 American Mathematical Society
- Journal: Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 86 (1957), 366-400
- MSC: Primary 60.00; Secondary 34.00
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9947-1957-0094854-8
- MathSciNet review: 0094854