 Birth process (source code)

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= Birth process
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= Pure birth process
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A pure birth process on $\mathbb N_0$ jumps only from $n$ to $n+1$, at a strictly positive rate $\lambda_n$. Its successive holding times are independent exponential variables of rates $\lambda_n$.

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