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A note on the Harris-Sevast'yanov transformation for supercritical branching processes

Part of: Markov processes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 April 2009

H.-J. Schuh
H.-J. Schuh
Affiliation:
Department of Statistics, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Abstract

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We show that the Harris-Sevast'yanov transformation for supercritical Galton-Watson processes with positive extinction probability q can be modified in such a way that the extinction probability of the new process takes any value between 0 and q. We give a probabilistic interpretation for the new process. This note is closely related to Athreya and Ney (1972), Chapter 1.12.

Keywords

supercritical Galton-Watson processextinction probabilityprobability generating functionHarris-Sevast'yanov transformation.

MSC classification

Secondary: 60J80: Branching processes (Galton-Watson, birth-and-death, etc.)
Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of the Australian Mathematical Society , Volume 32 , Issue 2 , April 1982 , pp. 215 - 222
Copyright
Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 1982

References

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