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Zbl 0601.60082
Neveu, J.
Arbres et processus de Galton-Watson. (Trees and Galton-Watson processes). (French)
[J] Ann. Inst. Henri Poincaré, Probab. Stat. 22, 199-207 (1986). ISSN 0246-0203

This article is motivated by the fact, that the notion of a tree in the theory of branching processes is rather just intuitive than formalized. According to the author - and there is a convincing example to support this - the branching property is not sufficiently worked out so that probabilists have to fall back upon analytic tools in demonstrations or proofs where probabilistic reasoning would be more natural. \par The result of the paper is the introduction of a formalized notion of a tree in the case of Galton-Watson processes proving a general branching property. The impact is illustrated by the author's new proof of results obtained by Joffe and O'N Waugh on kin number distributions. An extension treats the case of more general 'marked' trees.
[F.T.Bruss]

MSC 2000:: *60J80 Branching processes

Keywords: notion of a tree in the theory of branching processes; Galton-Watson processes; kin number distributions

Cited in: Zbl 0748.60081

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