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1、Galton-WatsonProcessesinVaryingEnvironmentsAuthor(s):PeterJagersSource:JournalofAppliedProbability,Vol.11,No.1(Mar.,1974),pp.174-178Publishedby:AppliedProbabilityTrustStableURL:http://www.jstor.org/stable/3212594.Accessed:07/11/201305:35YouruseoftheJSTOR
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4、AppliedProbability.http://www.jstor.orgThiscontentdownloadedfrom58.60.63.199onThu,7Nov201305:35:03AMAllusesubjecttoJSTORTermsandConditionsJ.Appl.Prob.11,174-178(1974)PrintedinIsrael?AppliedProbabilityTrust1974GALTON-WATSONPROCESSESINVARYINGENVIRONMENTSPE
5、TERJAGERS,GothenburgUniversity,SwedenAbstractGalton-Watsonprocesseswherethereproductionofindividualsindifferentgenerationscanhavedifferentdistributionsretainmanycharacteristicfeaturesofclassicalprocesses.GALTON-WATSONBRANCHINGPROCESS;RANDOMENVIRONMENT;DI
6、FFUSIONAPPROXIMATIONBehindditffusionapproximations[6],transitionphenomena[4],[8],[9],andrandomenvironments[1],[7],[10]forGalton-WatsonbranchingprocesseslurkstheideaofaGalton-Watsonprocesswherethereproductionmechanism,thoughnotrandom,neednotstaythesamegen
7、erationaftergeneration.Suchaprocessisdefinedastheclassicalone,butwiththenumberofchildrenofindividualsinthenthgenerationhavingareproductiongeneratingfunction4,,n(s)==pksP.k=OIfz,thendenotesthenumberofindividualsingenerationnandzo=1,z,hasprobabilitygenerat
8、ingfunctionfn=40oo0o...o,n-,.AfirstresultisamerereformulationofatheorembyChurchonthecompositionofgeneratingfunctions.See[3]or[1].(Theformulationtherecontainstheunnecessaryrestrictionthatall)i(s)~sandtheproofaminorflaw:-lpn