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In this section, we investigate processes with state space \({\mathbb{Z}^ + } = \left\{ {0,1,2,...} \right\}\) which are basically birth and death processes, but which also allow downward jumps called catastrophes, of arbitrary size.
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Anderson, W.J. (1991). Population Processes. In: Continuous-Time Markov Chains. Springer Series in Statistics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-3038-0_9
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