Coupling and population dependence in branching processes

Annals of Applied Probability

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 281-298

  Jagers, Peter ^a  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Branching processes; Cell kinetics; Population dynamics; Population size dependence

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031287495     PISSN: 10505164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/aoap/1034625331     Document Type: Article

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