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On the asymptotic properties of a supercritical bisexual branching process

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2016

J. H. Bagley*
Affiliation:
University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology

Abstract

An almost sure convergence result for the normed population size of a bisexual population model is proved. Properties of the limit random variable are deduced. The derivation of similar results for a general class of such processes is discussed.

Type
Short Communications
Copyright
Copyright © Applied Probability Trust 1986 

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