Limiting Behavior of the Generation Size of a Galton-Watson Branching Process
Interdisciplinary Stochastic Processes Colloquium
Apr 26, 2010, 03:30 PM - 05:00 PM | 740 Evans Hall | Happening As Scheduled
Nathan Ross, Department of Statistics, UC Berkeley (Speaker)
The long run behavior of the generation size of a Galton-Watson tree can be coarsely categorized into sub-critical, critical, and super-critical cases based on the mean of the offspring distribution being respectively less than, equal to, or greater than one. In each of these cases it is natural to ask what assumptions on the offspring distribution yield "nice" limiting properties of the...