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On asymptotic properties of sub-critical branching processes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 April 2009

E. Seneta
E. Seneta
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Australian National UniversityCanberra
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Let Zn be the numer of individuals in the nth generation of a discrete branching process, descended from a single a singel ancestor, for which we put It is well known that the probability generating function of Zn is Fn(s), the n-th functional iterate of F(s), and that if m = EZ1 does not exceed unity, then lim (Harris [1], Chapter 1). In particular, extinction is certain.

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Research Article
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Journal of the Australian Mathematical Society , Volume 8 , Issue 4 , November 1968 , pp. 671 - 682
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Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 1968

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