Aren't birth-death processes a specific type of markov process? Can you elaborate on what you mean by "For small populations you could consider Markov processes"?
In birth-death processes for populations, what are solutions for preventing the same individual from both giving birth and dying simultaneously (meaning the same time-step) in your model?
I'll provide some context:
Let's say the timestep is a year. You might say - A certain percentage of...