On the age of a randomly picked individual in a linear birth-and-death process
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Abstract We consider the distribution of the age of an individual picked uniformly at random at some fixed time in a linear birth-and-death process. By exploiting a bijection between the birth-and-death tree and a contour process, we derive the cumulative distribution function for this distribution. In the critical and supercritical cases, we also give rates for the convergence in terms of the total variation and other metrics towards the appropriate exponential distribution.
1978 ◽
Vol 15
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pp. 774-789
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2016 ◽
Vol 24
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pp. 183-199
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Vol 09
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pp. 39-53
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Estimating the cumulative distribution function for the linear combination of gamma random variables
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Vol 20
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pp. 939-951