Bisexual Galton-Watson branching process with population-size-dependent mating

Journal of Applied Probability

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 479-490

  Molina, M ^a   Mota, M ^a   Ramos, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXTREMADURA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Bisexual Galton Watson branching processes; Extinction probability; Population size dependent branching processes

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036763308     PISSN: 00219002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1239/jap/1034082121     Document Type: Article

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