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Collapsing supercritical branching processes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2016

Fergus Daly
Fergus Daly*
Affiliation:
University of Hull
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Abstract

Characteristics of some collapsing supercritical stochastic population processes where an embedded Galton–Watson process can be isolated are shown to be identical to those of some associated subcritical process.

Keywords

GALTON–WATSON PROCESSMULTI-TYPE GALTON-WATSON PROCESSBIRTH-AND-DEATH PROCESSBELLMAN–HARRIS PROCESSAGE-DEPENDENT BRANCHING PROCESS
Type
Research Papers
Information
Journal of Applied Probability , Volume 16 , Issue 4 , December 1979 , pp. 732 - 739
Copyright
Copyright © Applied Probability Trust 1979 

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