Change of measures for Markov chains and the LlogL theorem for branching processes

Bernoulli

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 323-338

  Athreya, Krishna B ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Change of measures; Markov chains; Martingales; Measure valued branching processes

Indexed keywords

EID: 0742283826     PISSN: 13507265     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3318579     Document Type: Article

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