Limit Theorems for Branching Processes
Book chapter, 2010

The long-range behavior of branching processes is described with an emphasis on one hand and on simple Galton-Watson processes on the other, on general branching processes.

LAPLACE transform

GALTON-WATSON process

MALTHUSIAN parameter

limit theorem

general branching process

age-distribution

Author

Peter Jagers

University of Gothenburg

Chalmers, Mathematical Sciences

Serik Sagitov

Chalmers, Mathematical Sciences, Mathematical Statistics

University of Gothenburg

Wiley Encyclopedia of Operations Research and Management Science

1-3
9780470400630 (ISBN)

Subject Categories (SSIF 2025)

Probability Theory and Statistics

DOI

10.1002/9780470400531.eorms0466

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