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Bounds on the limiting distribution of a branching process with varying environment

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 April 2009

Owen Dafydd Jones
Owen Dafydd Jones
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School of Mathematics and StatisticsUniversity of SheffieldSheffield S10 2UNUnited Kingdom
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Abstract

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Upper and lower bounds are obtained for the left tail of the normed limit W0 of a supercritical branching process with varying environment, that is, for P(W0 < x) for small x. Two types of process are dealt with—öttcher type and Schröder type—which between them cover “most” processes with zero extinction probability.

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Research Article
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Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society , Volume 52 , Issue 3 , December 1995 , pp. 499 - 515
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Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 1995

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