On the survival probability of a branching process in a random environment

Advances in Applied Probability

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 38-55

  D'Souza, J C ^a   Hambly, B M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Branching processes; Extinction time; Galton watson process; Large deviations; Random; Random walks; Survival probability; Varying environments

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002146753     PISSN: 00018678     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0001867800027786     Document Type: Article

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