NECESSARY CONDITIONS FOR ALMOST SURE EXTINCTION OF A BRANCHING PROCESS WITH RANDOM ENVIRONMENT,

Abstract

This note considers what may be called a branching process with random environment; it will be a sequence (Z sub n) of random variables forming a particular sort of Markov chain.

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1967
Accession Number
AD0661300

Entities

People

  • Walter L. Smith

Organizations

  • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Environment
  • Extinction
  • Markov Chains
  • Mathematics
  • Probability
  • Random Variables
  • Sequences

Fields of Study

  • Mathematics