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On a result of Rubin and Vere-Jones concerning subcritical branching processes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2016

Fred M. Hoppe
Fred M. Hoppe*
Affiliation:
University of Alberta, Edmonton
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Abstract

If a subcritical Galton-Watson process is initiated with an arbitrary mass distribution, then it is known that under certain conditions proper conditional limit distributions exist, depending on a single parameter. It is shown here that there is a one-to-one correspondence between these distributions and those arising from the process with a linear offspring probability generating function.

Keywords

GALTON-WATSON PROCESSYAGLOM LIMITREGULAR VARIATIONLINEARIZATIONFUNCTIONAL EQUATIONSCONVEXITYGENERATING FUNCTIONS
Type
Short Communications
Information
Journal of Applied Probability , Volume 13 , Issue 4 , December 1976 , pp. 804 - 808
Copyright
Copyright © Applied Probability Trust 1976 

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