Revisiting conditional limit theorems for the mortal simple branching process

Bernoulli

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 969-998

  Pakes, Anthony G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Branching process; Conditional limit theorem; Diffusion approximation; Extinction time; Total progeny

Indexed keywords

EID: 33746173509     PISSN: 13507265     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3318555     Document Type: Article

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