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Critical branching processes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 2016

Peter Ney
Peter Ney*
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University of Wisconsin, Madison
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Abstract

This paper develops a comparison method for critical branching processes. The method is applied to prove the exponential limit law for the multi-type age-dependent process under second moment conditions.

Keywords

BRANCHING PROCESSNON-LINEAR VOLTERRA EQUATIONCOMPARISON METHOD

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Research Article
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Advances in Applied Probability , Volume 6 , Issue 3 , September 1974 , pp. 434 - 445
Copyright
Copyright © Applied Probability Trust 1974 

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