On weighted branching processes in random environment

Stochastic Processes and their Applications

Volumn 109, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 113-144

  Kuhlbusch, Dirk ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Stationary ergodic random environment; Weighted branching process

Indexed keywords

EID: 0242467547     PISSN: 03044149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.spa.2003.09.004     Document Type: Article

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