scholarly journals Genealogical constructions and asymptotics for continuous-time Markov and continuous-state branching processes

2018 ◽  
Vol 50 (A) ◽  
pp. 197-209
Author(s):  
Thomas G. Kurtz

AbstractGenealogical constructions of population processes provide models which simultaneously record the forward-in-time evolution of the population size (and distribution of locations and types for models that include them) and the backward-in-time genealogies of the individuals in the population at each timet. A genealogical construction for continuous-time Markov branching processes from Kurtz and Rodrigues (2011) is described and exploited to give the normalized limit in the supercritical case. A Seneta‒Heyde norming is identified as a solution of an ordinary differential equation. The analogous results are given for continuous-state branching processes, including proofs of the normalized limits of Grey (1974) in both the supercritical and critical/subcritical cases.

2006 ◽  
Vol 43 (01) ◽  
pp. 289-295 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zenghu Li

We provide a simple set of sufficient conditions for the weak convergence of discrete-time, discrete-state Galton-Watson branching processes with immigration to continuous-time, continuous-state branching processes with immigration.


1975 ◽  
Vol 7 (01) ◽  
pp. 66-82 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. H. Bingham ◽  
R. A. Doney

We obtain results connecting the distribution of the random variablesYandWin the supercritical generalized branching processes introduced by Crump and Mode. For example, if β > 1,EYβandEWβconverge or diverge together and regular variation of the tail of one ofY, Wwith non-integer exponent β > 1 is equivalent to regular variation of the other. We also prove analogous results for the continuous-time continuous state-space branching processes introduced by Jirina.


1984 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 697-714 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. V. Mitov ◽  
V. A. Vatutin ◽  
N. M. Yanev

This paper deals with continuous-time branching processes which allow a temporally-decreasing immigration whenever the population size is 0. In the critical case the asymptotic behaviour of the probability of non-extinction and of the first two moments is investigated and different types of limit theorems are also proved.


1975 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 66-82 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. H. Bingham ◽  
R. A. Doney

We obtain results connecting the distribution of the random variables Y and W in the supercritical generalized branching processes introduced by Crump and Mode. For example, if β > 1, EYβ and EWβ converge or diverge together and regular variation of the tail of one of Y, W with non-integer exponent β > 1 is equivalent to regular variation of the other. We also prove analogous results for the continuous-time continuous state-space branching processes introduced by Jirina.


2016 ◽  
Vol 16 (04) ◽  
pp. 1650008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mátyás Barczy ◽  
Gyula Pap

Under natural assumptions, a Feller type diffusion approximation is derived for critical, irreducible multi-type continuous state and continuous time branching processes with immigration. Namely, it is proved that a sequence of appropriately scaled random step functions formed from a critical, irreducible multi-type continuous state and continuous time branching process with immigration converges weakly towards a squared Bessel process supported by a ray determined by the Perron vector of a matrix related to the branching mechanism of the branching process in question.


1974 ◽  
Vol 11 (04) ◽  
pp. 669-677 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. R. Grey

Results on the behaviour of Markov branching processes as time goes to infinity, hitherto obtained for models which assume a discrete state-space or discrete time or both, are here generalised to a model with both state-space and time continuous. The results are similar but the methods not always so.


1984 ◽  
Vol 16 (04) ◽  
pp. 697-714 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. V. Mitov ◽  
V. A. Vatutin ◽  
N. M. Yanev

This paper deals with continuous-time branching processes which allow a temporally-decreasing immigration whenever the population size is 0. In the critical case the asymptotic behaviour of the probability of non-extinction and of the first two moments is investigated and different types of limit theorems are also proved.


2021 ◽  
Vol 53 (4) ◽  
pp. 1023-1060
Author(s):  
Mátyás Barczy ◽  
Sandra Palau ◽  
Gyula Pap

AbstractUnder a fourth-order moment condition on the branching and a second-order moment condition on the immigration mechanisms, we show that an appropriately scaled projection of a supercritical and irreducible continuous-state and continuous-time branching process with immigration on certain left non-Perron eigenvectors of the branching mean matrix is asymptotically mixed normal. With an appropriate random scaling, under some conditional probability measure, we prove asymptotic normality as well. In the case of a non-trivial process, under a first-order moment condition on the immigration mechanism, we also prove the convergence of the relative frequencies of distinct types of individuals on a suitable event; for instance, if the immigration mechanism does not vanish, then this convergence holds almost surely.


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