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Collapsing supercritical branching processes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2016

Fergus Daly*
Affiliation:
University of Hull

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.

Type
Research Papers
Copyright
Copyright © Applied Probability Trust 1979 

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