Heavy traffic approximations for the Galton-Watson process

1971 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 282-300 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. S. Fahady ◽  
M. P. Quine ◽  
D. Vere-Jones
Keyword(s):  
Continuous Time ◽  
Limit Theorems ◽  
Branching Processes ◽  
Heavy Traffic ◽  
Critical Conditions ◽  
Critical Situation ◽  
Watson Process ◽  
Heavy Traffic Approximations ◽  
Number Of Individuals ◽  
Continuous Time Branching Processes

The behaviour of the Galton-Watson process in near critical conditions is discussed, both with and without immigration. Limit theorems are obtained which show that, suitably normalized, and conditional on non-extinction when there is no immigration, the number of individuals remaining in the population after a large number of generations has approximately a gamma distribution. The error estimates are uniform within a specified class of offspring distributions, and are independent of whether the critical situation is approached from above or below. These results parallel those given for continuous time branching processes by Sevast'yanov (1959), and extend recent work by Nagaev and Mohammedhanova (1966), Quineand Seneta (1969), and Seneta (1970).

Heavy traffic approximations for the Galton-Watson process

1971 ◽  
Vol 3 (02) ◽  
pp. 282-300 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. S. Fahady ◽  
M. P. Quine ◽  
D. Vere-Jones
Keyword(s):  
Continuous Time ◽  
Limit Theorems ◽  
Branching Processes ◽  
Heavy Traffic ◽  
Critical Conditions ◽  
Critical Situation ◽  
Watson Process ◽  
Heavy Traffic Approximations ◽  
Number Of Individuals ◽  
Continuous Time Branching Processes

The behaviour of the Galton-Watson process in near critical conditions is discussed, both with and without immigration. Limit theorems are obtained which show that, suitably normalized, and conditional on non-extinction when there is no immigration, the number of individuals remaining in the population after a large number of generations has approximately a gamma distribution. The error estimates are uniform within a specified class of offspring distributions, and are independent of whether the critical situation is approached from above or below. These results parallel those given for continuous time branching processes by Sevast'yanov (1959), and extend recent work by Nagaev and Mohammedhanova (1966), Quineand Seneta (1969), and Seneta (1970).

Continuous-time branching processes with decreasing state-dependent immigration

1984 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 697-714 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. V. Mitov ◽  
V. A. Vatutin ◽  
N. M. Yanev
Keyword(s):  
Asymptotic Behaviour ◽  
Population Size ◽  
Continuous Time ◽  
Limit Theorems ◽  
Critical Case ◽  
Branching Processes ◽  
State Dependent ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Continuous Time Branching Processes

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.

Continuous-time branching processes with decreasing state-dependent immigration

1984 ◽  
Vol 16 (04) ◽  
pp. 697-714 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. V. Mitov ◽  
V. A. Vatutin ◽  
N. M. Yanev
Keyword(s):  
Asymptotic Behaviour ◽  
Population Size ◽  
Continuous Time ◽  
Limit Theorems ◽  
Critical Case ◽  
Branching Processes ◽  
State Dependent ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Continuous Time Branching Processes

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.

Exponential ergodicity for single-birth processes

2004 ◽  
Vol 41 (4) ◽  
pp. 1022-1032 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yong-Hua Mao ◽  
Yu-Hui Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Continuous Time ◽  
Branching Processes ◽  
Sufficient Conditions ◽  
New Method ◽  
Sufficient Condition ◽  
Exponential Ergodicity ◽  
Comparison Methods ◽  
Birth Processes ◽  
Single Birth ◽  
Continuous Time Branching Processes

An explicit, computable, and sufficient condition for exponential ergodicity of single-birth processes is presented. The corresponding criterion for birth–death processes is proved using a new method. As an application, some sufficient conditions are obtained for exponential ergodicity of an extended class of continuous-time branching processes and of multidimensional Q-processes, by comparison methods.

scholarly journals Asymptotic behavior of critical, irreducible multi-type continuous state and continuous time branching processes with immigration

2016 ◽  
Vol 16 (04) ◽  
pp. 1650008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mátyás Barczy ◽  
Gyula Pap
Keyword(s):  
Continuous Time ◽  
Branching Process ◽  
Branching Processes ◽  
Bessel Process ◽  
Step Functions ◽  
Squared Bessel Process ◽  
Continuous State ◽  
Random Step ◽  
Branching Process With Immigration ◽  
Continuous Time Branching Processes

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.

scholarly journals Asymptotic Behaviour of Continuous Time and State Branching Processes

2000 ◽  
Vol 68 (1) ◽  
pp. 68-84 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zeng-Hu Li
Keyword(s):  
Asymptotic Behaviour ◽  
Continuous Time ◽  
Limit Theorems ◽  
Branching Processes ◽  
Limit Laws ◽  
Classical Setting

AbstractWe prove some limit theorems for contiunous time and state branching processes. The non-degenerate limit laws are obtained in critical and non-critical cases by conditioning or introducing immigration processes. The limit laws in non-critical cases are characterized in terms of the cononical measure of the cumulant semigroup. The proofs are based on estimates of the cumulant semigroup derived from the forward and backward equations, which are easier than the proffs in the classical setting.

Some limit theorems for Markov branching processes

1973 ◽  
Vol 10 (02) ◽  
pp. 299-306 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. R. Leslie
Keyword(s):  
Limit Theorems ◽  
Branching Process ◽  
Branching Processes ◽  
Original Process ◽  
The Central Limit Theorem ◽  
Iterated Logarithm ◽  
Logarithm Law ◽  
Increasing Process ◽  
Watson Process ◽  
Iterated Logarithm Law

Analogues of the central limit theorem and iterated logarithm law have recently been obtained for the Galton-Watson process; similar results are established in this paper for the temporally homogeneous Markov branching process and for the associated increasing process consisting of the number of splits in the original process up to time t.

On maximum family size in branching processes

1999 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 632-643 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ibrahim Rahimov ◽  
George P. Yanev
Keyword(s):  
Asymptotic Behaviour ◽  
Sample Size ◽  
Random Sample ◽  
Family Size ◽  
Limit Theorems ◽  
Branching Processes ◽  
Random Sample Size ◽  
Convergence Results ◽  
Watson Process ◽  
Supercritical Branching Processes

The number Yn of offspring of the most prolific individual in the nth generation of a Bienaymé–Galton–Watson process is studied. The asymptotic behaviour of Yn as n → ∞ may be viewed as an extreme value problem for i.i.d. random variables with random sample size. Limit theorems for both Yn and EYn provided that the offspring mean is finite are obtained using some convergence results for branching processes as well as a transfer limit lemma for maxima. Subcritical, critical and supercritical branching processes are considered separately.

scholarly journals Asymptotic behavior of projections of supercritical multi-type continuous-state and continuous-time branching processes with immigration

2021 ◽  
Vol 53 (4) ◽  
pp. 1023-1060
Author(s):  
Mátyás Barczy ◽  
Sandra Palau ◽  
Gyula Pap
Keyword(s):  
Asymptotic Behavior ◽  
Continuous Time ◽  
Branching Process ◽  
Branching Processes ◽  
Order Moment ◽  
Moment Condition ◽  
First Order ◽  
Continuous State ◽  
Branching Process With Immigration ◽  
Continuous Time Branching Processes

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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