Application of the Galton-Watson process to the kin number problem

DOI10.2307/1426964zbMath0472.60067OpenAlexW4249112476MaRDI QIDQ3925644

W. A. O'N. Waugh

Publication date: 1981

Published in: Advances in Applied Probability (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2307/1426964

zbMATH Keywords

Galton-Watson processfamily sizebranching population modelscancer pedigree studiesfractional linear probability generating functionskin number problem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of branching processes (60J85) Branching processes (Galton-Watson, birth-and-death, etc.) (60J80)

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