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The Weighted Branching Process

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Branching processes have a lot of applications in the real world. Basically, one counts the number of offspring or individuals in a certain generation. But that is only part of the story. In reality the mother (parents) passes some value to the children and they to their children and so on. Examples of values are the DNA sequence, money, knowledge, influence and so on.

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Roesler, U. (2016). The Weighted Branching Process. In: del Puerto, I., et al. Branching Processes and Their Applications. Lecture Notes in Statistics(), vol 219. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31641-3_13

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