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Critical branching processes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 2016

Peter Ney*
Affiliation:
University of Wisconsin, Madison

Abstract

This paper develops a comparison method for critical branching processes. The method is applied to prove the exponential limit law for the multi-type age-dependent process under second moment conditions.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Applied Probability Trust 1974 

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