Branching Processes and Their Applications

This volume gathers papers originally presented at the 3rd Workshop on Branching Processes and their Applications (WBPA15), which was held from 7 to 10 April 2015 in Badajoz, Spain (http://branching.unex.es/wbpa15/index.htm). The papers address a bro

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Inés M. del Puerto · Miguel González Cristina Gutiérrez · Rodrigo Martínez Carmen Minuesa · Manuel Molina Manuel Mota · Alfonso Ramos Editors

Branching Processes and Their Applications

Lecture Notes in Statistics Edited by P. Bickel, P. Diggle, S.E. Fienberg, U. Gather, S. Zeger

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Editors Inés M. del Puerto Departamento de Matemáticas Facultad de Ciencias Universidad de Extremadura Badajoz, Spain

Miguel González Departamento de Matemáticas Facultad de Ciencias Universidad de Extremadura Badajoz, Spain

Cristina Gutiérrez Departamento de Matemáticas Facultad de Ciencias Universidad de Extremadura Badajoz, Spain

Rodrigo Martínez Departamento de Matemáticas Centro Universitario de Plasencia Universidad de Extremadura Plasencia, Spain

Carmen Minuesa Departamento de Matemáticas Facultad de Ciencias Universidad de Extremadura Badajoz, Spain

Manuel Molina Departamento de Matemáticas Facultad de Ciencias Universidad de Extremadura Badajoz, Spain

Manuel Mota Departamento de Matemáticas Facultad de Ciencias Universidad de Extremadura Badajoz, Spain

Alfonso Ramos Departamento de Matemáticas Facultad de Veterinaria Universidad de Extremadura Cáceres, Spain

ISSN 0930-0325 Lecture Notes in Statistics ISBN 978-3-319-31639-0 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-31641-3

ISSN 2197-7186 (electronic) ISBN 978-3-319-31641-3 (eBook)

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Foreword

Branching processes were proposed as a mathematical model for the survival of family