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In a wide sense, a branching process could be described as a stochastic model for the development of a population, the members of which we call individuals or particles and which independently reproduce (and possibly in addition evolve in some other manner).
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Asmussen, S., Hering, H. (1983). Branching Phenomena and Models. In: Branching Processes. Progress in Probability and Statistics, vol 3. Birkhäuser, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-8155-0_1
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