An Immigration and Fragmentation Stochastic Process.

Abstract

A population of different types of particles is considered where immigration of the various particle types into the population is allowed. The immigration causes 'fragmentation' or branching of all the existing target particles in the population. An immigrating particle can also fragment into the different types. The joint moment generating function for the number of particles in the m-th generation, and the expected number of particles in the m-th generation are given. Asymptotic expected values, and limits of random variables for a k-type process in discrete random environment with and without immigration are obtained. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 01, 1970
Accession Number
AD0721340

Entities

People

  • D. W. Fairweather
  • I. N. Shimi

Organizations

  • Florida State University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Demographic Cohorts
  • Demography
  • Environment
  • Fragmentation
  • Human Population
  • Immigration
  • Mathematics
  • Particles
  • Random Variables
  • Stochastic Processes

Fields of Study

  • Mathematics

Readers

  • Aerosol Science/Aerosol Physics
  • Canadian European Scientific Immigration and Epilepsy Clearance Studies
  • Mathematical Modeling and Probability Theory.