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

DOI10.15559/16-VMSTA72MaRDI QIDQ522548zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors 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

Cramér's theoremestimatorsGalton-Watson processinitial random populationlarge deviationsoffspring meantotal progeny

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Large deviations (60F10) Branching processes (Galton-Watson, birth-and-death, etc.) (60J80) Point estimation (62F10) Asymptotic properties of parametric estimators (62F12) Population dynamics (general) (92D25)

Abstract: The Galton--Watson process is the simplest example of a branching process. The relationship between the offspring distribution, and, when the extinction occurs almost surely, the distribution of the total progeny is well known. In this paper, we illustrate the relationship between these two distributions when we consider the large deviation rate function (provided by Cram'{e}r's theorem) for empirical means of i.i.d. random variables. We also consider the case with a random initial population. In the final part, we present large deviation results for sequences of estimators of the offspring mean based on i.i.d. replications of total progeny.

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