Galton—Watson Processes

Student: Kovzel Yuriy

Supervisor: Alexey Vladimirovich Klimenko

Educational Programme: Joint Bachelor's Programme with the Centre for Teaching Excellence (Bachelor)

Year of Graduation: 2021

In this paper, we consider the Galton-Watson processes, draw empirical distribution functions and histograms that were obtained by modeling this process in Python. A theorem on the probability of particle extinction is formulated and proved. The problem of the asymptotic distribution of the number of particles is considered

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