Non parametric confidence intervals for the extinction probability of a Galton-Watson branching process

DOI10.1080/03610926.2015.1014108MaRDI QIDQ2979592zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Steven G. From

Publication date 25 April 2017

Published in Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1080/03610926.2015.1014108

zbMATH Keywords

bootstrapmaximum likelihood estimationconfidence intervalsextinction probabilityGalton-Watson branching processadjusted proportions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonparametric tolerance and confidence regions (62G15) Branching processes (Galton-Watson, birth-and-death, etc.) (60J80)

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• Approximating the distribution of a renewal process using generalized poisson distributions
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• Confidence intervals for nonhomogeneous branching processes and polymerase chain reactions

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