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Additional aspects of the generalized linear-fractional branching process

Populations and Evolution 2016-07-08 v1 Probability

Abstract

We derive some additional results on the Bienyam\'e-Galton-Watson branching process with θ\theta -linear fractional branching mechanism, as studied in \cite{Sag}. This includes: the explicit expression of the limit laws in both the sub-critical cases and the super-critical cases with finite mean, the long-run behavior of the population size in the critical case, limit laws in the super-critical cases with infinite mean when the θ\theta -process is either regular or explosive, results regarding the time to absorption, an expression of the probability law of the θ\theta -branching mechanism involving Bell polynomials, the explicit computation of the stochastic transition matrix of the θ\theta -process, together with its powers.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1607.01915,
  title  = {Additional aspects of the generalized linear-fractional branching process},
  author = {Nicolas Grosjean and Thierry Huillet},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1607.01915},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

To appear in Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics

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