Abstract Nosocomial epidemics are infectious diseases which spread among different types of susceptible individuals in a health-care facility. To model this type of epidemics, we use a multi-type branching process with a multivariate negative binomial offspring distribution. In particular, we...

Abstract This is a short survey about asymptotic properties of a supercritical branching process (Z_{n}) with immigration in a stationary and ergodic or independent and identically distributed random environment. We first present basic properties of the fundamental submartingale (W_{n}) , about...

Abstract We propose modeling COVID-19 infection dynamics using a class of two-type branching processes. These models require only observations on daily statistics to estimate the average number of secondary infections caused by a host and to predict the mean number of the non-observed infected...

In a multitype (d types) supercritical positively regular Galton–Watson branching process, let {Xn,Xn−1,…,X0} denote the types of a randomly chosen (i.e., uniform distribution) individual from the nth generation and this individual’s n ancestors. It is shown here that this sequence...

The Multifractal Embedded Branching Process (MEBP) process and Canonical Embedded Branching Process (CEBP) process were introduced by Decrouez and Jones (2012). The CEBP is a process in which the crossings of dyadic intervals constitute a branching process. An MEBP process is defined as a...

We study fine properties of Lévy trees that are random compact metric spaces introduced by Le Gall and Le Jan in 1998 as the genealogy of continuous state branching processes. Lévy trees are the scaling limits of Galton–Watson trees and they generalize the Aldous continuum random tree which...

We propose a “reflexivity” index that quantifies the relative importance of short-term endogeneity for several commodity futures markets (corn, oil, soybean, sugar, and wheat) and a benchmark equity futures market (E-mini S&P 500), from mid-2000s to October 2012. Our reflexivity index is...

We show that the problem of existence of a mitochondrial Eve can be understood as an application of the Galton–Watson process and presents interesting analogies with critical phenomena in Statistical Mechanics. In the approximation of small survival probability, and assuming limited progeny,...