CHAPTER FIVE

OTHER CHARACTERISTIC PROBABILITIES

5.1 Introduction

In this chapter, we shall discuss the distribution function of the survival time of a branching process in a given medium. We shall also investigate the distribution of the size of the population generated by a particle and its progeny, as well as we shall study a branching process whose evolution is influenced by the randomly delayed activity of particles born in a reaction. At the same time, we shall also deal with a process in which the reactions ...

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