Branching processes: Variation, growth, and extinction of populations

Branching Processes: Variation, Growth, and Extinction of Populations

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 1-317

  Vatutin, Vladimir A ^c  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^c STEKLOV MATHEMATICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

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DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511629136     Document Type: Book

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