Crawford, Forrest W.; Minin, Vladimir N.; Suchard, Marc A. - In: Journal of the American Statistical Association 109 (2014) 506, pp. 730-747
Birth-death processes (BDPs) are continuous-time Markov chains that track the number of "particles" in a system over time. While widely used in population biology, genetics, and ecology, statistical inference of the instantaneous particle birth and death rates remains largely limited to...