Large deviations for i.i.d. replications of the total progeny of a Galton-Watson process

DOI10.15559/16-VMSTA72zbMath1361.60021arXiv1704.02100MaRDI QIDQ522548

Claudio Macci, Barbara Pacchiarotti

Publication date: 18 April 2017

Published in: Modern Stochastics. Theory and Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1704.02100

zbMATH Keywords

large deviations; estimators; Galton-Watson process; Cramér's theorem; total progeny; offspring mean; initial random population

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

62F12: Asymptotic properties of parametric estimators

62F10: Point estimation

92D25: Population dynamics (general)

60F10: Large deviations

60J80: Branching processes (Galton-Watson, birth-and-death, etc.)

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