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Conditional moments in a critical age-dependent branching process

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2016

Howard J. Weiner*
Affiliation:
University of California, Davis

Abstract

Let X(t), N(t) respectively denote the number of cells alive at t and the total number of cells born by t in a critical age-dependent Bellman-Harris branching process.

The asymptotic behavior of the conditional moments, for 0 < α ≦ 1, E(Nn(αt) | X(t) > 0), E(Nn(t) |X(αt) > 0), is obtained.

Type
Short Communications
Copyright
Copyright © Applied Probability Trust 1975 

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