Simulating the Birth-Death Process

initial population

10

mean time between births

3

mean lifetime

2

seed for random numbers

1

multiplier of standard deviation

2

This Demonstration shows simulated paths of the simple birth-death process. Thus, you can see how the size of the population changes with time. You can adjust the initial population, the mean time between births, and the mean lifetime. The birth-death process is a special case of continuous-time Markov chains.