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Local limit theorems for non-critical Galton–Watson processes by or without immigration

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2016

R. Höpfner*
Affiliation:
Johannes-Gutenberg-Universität Mainz

Abstract

From normal limiting distributions of suitably normed sequences of Galton–Watson processes or Galton-Watson processes with immigration, with initial states tending to ∞, we can derive local limit theorems for the transition probabilities Qn (i, j) and Pn (i, j) in the non-critical case, when initial state i and final state j tend to ∞ with n.

Type
Research Papers
Copyright
Copyright © Applied Probability Trust 1982 

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