On the probability of extinction of a Galton-Watson process

Diptesh Ghosh ()

Statistics & Probability Letters, 2003, vol. 65, issue 3, pages 195-198

Abstract: A new lower bound for the probability of extinction of a Galton-Watson process is derived. The result extends the classical extinction probability theorem of J.F. Steffensen.

Keywords: Extinction; probability; Galton-Watson; process (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2003

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