Relative frequencies in multitype branching processes

Annals of Applied Probability

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 1-14

  Yakovlev, Andrei Y ^a   Yanev, Nikolay M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICS AND INFORMATICS   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

Cell proliferation; Joint asymptotic normality; Multitype branching processes; Relative frequencies

Indexed keywords

EID: 64149094817     PISSN: 10505164     EISSN: 10505164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/08-AAP539     Document Type: Article

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