Abstract
In this paper we obtain estimators for the variance of the offspring distribution of a controlled branching process and we derive, for these estimators, some moments and asymptotic properties as consistency and limiting distribution.
Key Words
Branching processes method of moment estimators maximum likelihood estimators asymptotic behaviourAMS subject classification
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