The differential equations of birth-and-death processes, and the Stieltjes moment problem
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- © Copyright 1957 American Mathematical Society
- Journal: Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 85 (1957), 489-546
- MSC: Primary 60.0X
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9947-1957-0091566-1
- MathSciNet review: 0091566