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We noted in Sect. 3.4, (3.42), that the time to extinction \( \tau_{\rm q}\) from quasi-stationarity for a birth–death process with finite state space and with an absorbing state at the origin has an exponential distribution with expectation equal to \( \rm E{\tau}_{Q}= 1 /(\mu_{1}\rm q_{1}).\)
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NĂ¥sell, I. (2011). Approximation of the Time to Extinction for the SIS Model. In: Extinction and Quasi-Stationarity in the Stochastic Logistic SIS Model. Lecture Notes in Mathematics(), vol 2022. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-20530-9_12
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