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A stochastic model for two interacting populations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2016

Niels G. Becker
Niels G. Becker*
Affiliation:
Cornell University and University of Sheffield
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To explain the growth of interacting populations, non-linear models need to be proposed and it is this non-linearity which proves to be most awkward in attempts at solving the resulting differential equations. A model with a particular non-linear component, initially proposed by Weiss (1965) for the spread of a carrier-borne epidemic, was solved completely by different methods by Dietz (1966) and Downton (1967). Immigration parameters were added to the model of Weiss and the resulting model was made the subject of a paper by Dietz and Downton (1968). It is the aim here to further generalize the model by introducing birth and death parameters so that the result is a linear birth and death process with immigration for each population plus the non-linear interaction component.

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Research Papers
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Journal of Applied Probability , Volume 7 , Issue 3 , December 1970 , pp. 544 - 564
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Copyright © Applied Probability Trust 1970 

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