Total Progency in a Critical Age-Dependent Branching Process with Immigration

Abstract

Let Z(t) = total number of cells born by t to critical age-dependent branching processes initiated by immigration at renewal epochs, with a random number of new cells introduced at each epoch, and where the mean cell lifetime is unequal to that of the mean time between immigration epochs. By extending a result for the discrete-time case of Pakes, and using approximation techniques and a rate of convergence result for a generalized law of large numbers, it is shown that, using second moments that the limit of E as t approaches infinity for exp(- theta t square z(t)) exists, and is explicitly given.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 22, 1976
Accession Number
ADA030694

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People

  • Howard Weiner

Organizations

  • Stanford University

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Communities of Interest

  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

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  • California
  • Continuity
  • Contracts
  • Convergence
  • Convolution
  • Distribution Functions
  • Equations
  • Immigration
  • Inequalities
  • Integral Equations
  • Military Research
  • New York
  • Notation
  • Probability
  • Random Variables
  • United States
  • United States Government

Fields of Study

  • Mathematics

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  • Analytical Mechanics
  • Mathematical Modeling and Probability Theory.