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Diffusion limits of critical branching processes conditioned on extinction in the near future

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2016

Warren W. Esty
Warren W. Esty*
Affiliation:
Cleveland State University
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*Now at Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana.
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Abstract

Limit laws and limiting diffusions are obtained for critical branching processes, either Galton-Watson or age-dependent, conditioned on extinction in the interval (T, cT], 1 < c, as T→∞, and also as T→∞ and c ↓ 1.

Keywords

BRANCHING PROCESSDIFFUSIONCRITICAL BRANCHING PROCESSGALTON-WATSON PROCESSAGE-DEPENDENT BRANCHING PROCESS
Type
Research Papers
Information
Journal of Applied Probability , Volume 13 , Issue 2 , June 1976 , pp. 247 - 254
Copyright
Copyright © Applied Probability Trust 1976 

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