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A Note on Estimation of Parameters for Branching Processes with Immigration

Yuqiang Li School of Finance and Statistics, East China Normal University, Shanghai, ChinaCorrespondence[email protected]
Pages 3337-3348 | Received 19 Sep 2008, Accepted 07 Jun 2010, Published online: 21 Jul 2011

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