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On supercritical Galton-Watson processes allowing immigration

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2016

A. G. Pakes*
Affiliation:
Monash University

Abstract

We establish the absolute continuity of the limit random variables of two supercritical Galton-Watson branching processes, one allowing unrestricted immigration and the other having a state dependent immigration component.

Type
Short Communications
Copyright
Copyright © Applied Probability Trust 1974 

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