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Branching Processes

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Branching processes is an area of mathematics that attempts explaining situations when a particle or entity can produce one or more entities of similar or different types.

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Yadav, S.K. (2019). Branching Processes. In: Laha, A. (eds) Advances in Analytics and Applications. Springer Proceedings in Business and Economics. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-1208-3_4

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