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LIMIT THEOREMS FOR A GALTON-WATSON PROCESS IN THE I.I.D. RANDOM ENVIRONMENT

  • GAO Zhen-Long ,
  • HU Xiao-Yu
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  • 1.Scool of Mathematical Sciences, Qufu Normal University, Qufu 273165, China; 2.Scool of Mathematical Sciences, Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China

Received date: 2010-12-30

  Online published: 2012-05-20

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Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (10871200).

Abstract

In this article, we obtain the central limit theorem and the law of the iterated logarithm for Galton-Watson processes in i.i.d. random environments.

Cite this article

GAO Zhen-Long , HU Xiao-Yu . LIMIT THEOREMS FOR A GALTON-WATSON PROCESS IN THE I.I.D. RANDOM ENVIRONMENT[J]. Acta mathematica scientia, Series B, 2012 , 32(3) : 1193 -1205 . DOI: 10.1016/S0252-9602(12)60091-5

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