Age and residual lifetime distributions for branching processes

Statistics and Probability Letters

Volumn 77, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 503-513

  Yakovlev, A ^a   Yanev, N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICS AND INFORMATICS   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

Age distributions; Branching processes; Immigration; Residual lifetime distributions

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846181000     PISSN: 01677152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.spl.2006.08.018     Document Type: Article

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