Some New Bounds on the Probability of Extinction of a Galton–Watson Process with Numerical Comparisons
DOI10.1080/03610920601126597zbMath1125.60014OpenAlexW2031671514MaRDI QIDQ5421553
Publication date: 24 October 2007
Published in: Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods (Search for Journal in Brave)
Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/03610920601126597
momentsprobability generating functionextinction probabilityGalton-Watson processoffspring distributiondiscrete lifetime distribution
Inequalities; stochastic orderings (60E15) Characteristic functions; other transforms (60E10) Branching processes (Galton-Watson, birth-and-death, etc.) (60J80)
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