Abstract
In this note we propose a two-spine decomposition of the critical Galton-Watson tree and use this decomposition to give a probabilistic proof of Yaglom’s theorem.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Journal | Electronic Communications in Probability |
| Volume | 23 |
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| State | Published - 2018 |
Keywords
- Galton-Watson process
- Galton-Watson tree
- Martingale change of measure
- Spine decomposition
- Yaglom’s theorem
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Statistics and Probability
- Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty