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Some properties of a branching process with group immigration and emigration

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 2016

Anthony G. Pakes
Anthony G. Pakes*
Affiliation:
University of Western Australia
*
∗Postal address: Department of Mathematics, University of Western Australia, Nedlands, WA 6009, Australia.
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Abstract

Batches of immigrants arrive in a region at event times of a renewal process and individuals grow according to a Bellman-Harris branching process. Tribal emigration allows the possibility that all descendants of a group of immigrants collectively leave the region at some instant.

A number of results are derived giving conditions for the existence of a limiting distribution for the population size. These conditions can be given either in terms of the immigration distribution or in terms of the distribution of emigration times. Some limit theorems are obtained when the latter conditions are not fulfilled.

Keywords

BELLMAN–HARRIS PROCESSTRIBAL EMIGRATIONLIMIT THEOREMS
Type
Research Article
Information
Advances in Applied Probability , Volume 18 , Issue 3 , September 1986 , pp. 628 - 645
Copyright
Copyright © Applied Probability Trust 1986 

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