Accession Number:

ADA048790

Title:

Joint Distributions for Total Progeny in a Critical Branching Process

Descriptive Note:

Technical rept.

Corporate Author:

STANFORD UNIV CA DEPT OF STATISTICS

Personal Author(s):

• Weiner, Howard J.

Report Date:

1977-09-23

Pagination or Media Count:

27.0

Abstract:

Let Nt deonte the total progeny born by time t in a critical age- dependent branching process. A limit law for the joint distribution of Nalpha tt squared and Ntt squared conditioned on the event that the process is not extinct at t is obtained, where 0 alpha 1.

Descriptors:

• *DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS
• STATISTICAL INFERENCE
• PROBABILITY
• ITERATIONS
• CRITICALITY(GENERAL)
• CELLS
• APPROXIMATION(MATHEMATICS)

Subject Categories:

• Statistics and Probability

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE