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On the transient behaviour of a Poisson branching process

1967; Cambridge University Press; Volume: 7; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1017/s1446788700004407

ISSN

2059-9234

Autores

E. Seneta,

Tópico(s)

Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics

Resumo

Summary In general, information concerning the distribution of the time to absorption, T , of a simple branching (Galton-Watson) process for which extinction in finite mean time is certain, is difficult to obtain. The process of greatest biological interest is that for which the offspring distribution is Poisson, having p.g.f. F (s) = e m(s-1) , m < 1.

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