Estimation of the offspring distribution and the mean vector for a bisexual Galton-Watson process

Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 497-516

  Gonzalez M ^a   Molina, M ^a   Mota, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXTREMADURA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Asymptotic behaviour; Galton Watson process theory; Maximum likelihood estimators; Method of moment estimators

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034901284     PISSN: 03610926     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1081/STA-100002094     Document Type: Article

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