The critical branching process with immigration stopped at zero

1985 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 223-227 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. Gail Ivanoff ◽  
E. Seneta
Keyword(s):  
Limit Theorems ◽  
Branching Process ◽  
Critical Case ◽  
Initial Distribution ◽  
New Form ◽  
Watson Process ◽  
Branching Process With Immigration ◽  
Limit Result ◽  
Critical Branching Process

Limit theorems for the Galton–Watson process with immigration (BPI), where immigration is not permitted when the process is in state 0 (so that this state is absorbing), have been studied for the subcritical and supercritical cases by Seneta and Tavaré (1983). It is pointed out here that, apart from a change of context, the corresponding theorem in the critical case has been obtained by Vatutin (1977). Extensions which follow from a more general form of initial distribution are sketched, including a new form of limit result (7).

The critical branching process with immigration stopped at zero

1985 ◽  
Vol 22 (01) ◽  
pp. 223-227 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. Gail Ivanoff ◽  
E. Seneta
Keyword(s):  
Limit Theorems ◽  
Branching Process ◽  
Critical Case ◽  
Initial Distribution ◽  
New Form ◽  
Watson Process ◽  
Branching Process With Immigration ◽  
Limit Result ◽  
Critical Branching Process

Limit theorems for the Galton–Watson process with immigration (BPI), where immigration is not permitted when the process is in state 0 (so that this state is absorbing), have been studied for the subcritical and supercritical cases by Seneta and Tavaré (1983). It is pointed out here that, apart from a change of context, the corresponding theorem in the critical case has been obtained by Vatutin (1977). Extensions which follow from a more general form of initial distribution are sketched, including a new form of limit result (7).

scholarly journals On estimation of the variances for critical branching processes with immigration

2010 ◽  
Vol 47 (02) ◽  
pp. 526-542
Author(s):  
Chunhua Ma ◽  
Longmin Wang
Keyword(s):  
Least Squares ◽  
Branching Process ◽  
Branching Processes ◽  
Limiting Distributions ◽  
Least Squares Estimators ◽  
Conditional Least Squares ◽  
Regularly Varying ◽  
Branching Process With Immigration ◽  
Critical Branching Process

The conditional least-squares estimators of the variances are studied for a critical branching process with immigration that allows the offspring distributions to have infinite fourth moments. We derive different forms of limiting distributions for these estimators when the offspring distributions have regularly varying tails with index α. In particular, in the case in which 2 < α < 8/3, the normalizing factor of the estimator for the offspring variance is smaller than √n, which is different from that of Winnicki (1991).

Functional limit theorems for the decomposable branching process with two types of particles

2016 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Valeriy I Afanasiev
Keyword(s):  
Limit Theorems ◽  
Branching Process ◽  
Random Numbers ◽  
Functional Limit ◽  
Functional Limit Theorems ◽  
Watson Process

AbstractA decomposable Galton - Watson process with two types of particles is considered. Particles of the first type produce equal random numbers of particles of both types, particles of the second type produce particles of the second type only. Under the condition that the total number of the first type particles is equal to

On estimating the variance of the offspring distribution in a simple branching process

1974 ◽  
Vol 6 (03) ◽  
pp. 421-433 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. C. Heyde
Keyword(s):  
Rate Of Convergence ◽  
Central Limit ◽  
Branching Process ◽  
Limit Theory ◽  
Offspring Distribution ◽  
Iterated Logarithm ◽  
Single Realization ◽  
Watson Process ◽  
Limit Result ◽  
Strongly Consistent

A single realization {Z n , 0 ≦n≦N + 1} of a supercritical Galton-Watson process (so called) is considered and it is required to estimate the variance of the offspring distribution. A prospective estimator is proposed, where , and is shown to be strongly consistent on the non-extinction set. A central limit result and an iterated logarithm result are provided to give information on the rate of convergence of the estimator. It is also shown that the estimation results are robust in the sense that they continue to apply unchanged in the case where immigration occurs. Martingale limit theory is employed at each stage in obtaining the limit results.

Some limit theorems for Markov branching processes

1973 ◽  
Vol 10 (02) ◽  
pp. 299-306 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. R. Leslie
Keyword(s):  
Limit Theorems ◽  
Branching Process ◽  
Branching Processes ◽  
Original Process ◽  
The Central Limit Theorem ◽  
Iterated Logarithm ◽  
Logarithm Law ◽  
Increasing Process ◽  
Watson Process ◽  
Iterated Logarithm Law

Analogues of the central limit theorem and iterated logarithm law have recently been obtained for the Galton-Watson process; similar results are established in this paper for the temporally homogeneous Markov branching process and for the associated increasing process consisting of the number of splits in the original process up to time t.

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