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A continuous time Markov branching model with random environments

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 2016

Norman Kaplan*
Affiliation:
University of California, Berkeley

Abstract

A population model is constructed which combines the ideas of a discrete time branching process with random environments and a continuous time non-homogeneous Markov branching process. The extinction problem is considered and necessary and sufficient conditions for extinction are determined. Also discussed are limit theorems for what corresponds to the supercritical case.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Applied Probability Trust 1973 

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