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Relative extinction times for independent branching processes
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 July 2016
Abstract
The conditional probability that a Galton-Watson process with initial population j dies out before an independent Galton-Watson process initially i, is computed asymptotically as i or j gets large, given that both processes eventually die out. The results are interpreted qualitatively to discuss parameters of fitness for biological populations, especially with respect to the spread of mutant genes under evolutionary models.
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