branching process

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branching process [′branch·iŋ ′präs·əs]

(statistics)

A stochastic process in which the members of a population may have offspring and the lines of descent branch out as the new members are born.

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No references found			Some reporting their own research and others surveying the literature, they cover record statistics, characterizing distributions through bivariate regression on differences of records, regenerative branching processes, conditional limit theorems for a continuous time and state branching process, large families and exceedances in branching processes, offspring extremes in branching processes, and statistical inferences for branching processes. Records and branching processes by SciTech Book News Let us recall first the definition of a multitype branching process (Harris (1963), Athreya and Ney (2004)). Generating functions of stochastic L-systems and application to ... by Loi, Cedric; Cournede, Paul Henry / DMTCS Proceedings As the Monte Carlo moves are made, what is called a mathematical branching process is used to correct the guesses importance function. Schrodinger goes to Monte Carlo; the 'adaptive Monte Carlo' method ... by Thomsen, Dietrick E. / Science News			branch-circuit distribution center branched acinous gland branched chain Branched Oak State Recreation Area branched polymer branched tubular gland branched-chain ketoaciduria Branches of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR branchia branchial branchial arch branchial basket branchial cleft branchial heart branchial plume branchial pouch branchial sac branchial segment Branchiata branchiate Branching branching adaptation branching bay branching diagram branching fraction branching process branching ratio branching theory branchiocranium branchiomere branchiomeric musculature Branchiomycosis Branchiopoda branchiostegite Branchiostoma Branchiotremata branchite Branchiura Branco Branco, Elisa Brancovan, Constantine Brancovic, Djordje Brancusi Brancusi, Constantin Brand, Ethan Brand, Max Brand, Mona Brand, Sir John Henry Brand, Stewart Brand, Vance Devoe Brandão, Raul			branching branching branching branching Branching (chemistry) Branching (linguistics) branching adaptation branching bay branching canal branching canal branching canal branching canal branching diagram Branching enzyme Branching enzyme Branching enzyme Branching Filter Branching fraction branching off branching off branching off branching off branching off branching out branching out branching out branching out branching out Branching point Branching Poisson Process branching process Branching processes Branching Ratio branching snowflake test Branching Temporal Logic branching theory Branching Zones of Clusters Branchio-Oculo-Facial Syndrome Branchio-Oto-Renal Syndrome Branchiobdella Branchiobdellidae branchiocranium Branchiogastropoda branchiogenic branchiogenic cyst branchiogenic cyst branchiogenic cyst branchiogenous branchiogenous cyst branchiogenous cyst branchiogenous cyst branchiomere Branchiomeric muscles Branchiomeric musculature Branchiomerism Branchiomerism branchiomotor nuclei Branchiomotor/Visceromotor Branchiomyces Branchiomycosis

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