An algorithm for the computation of a maximum likelihood estimate of the offspring distribution in a Bienaymé-Galton-Watson branching process is presented. Although the offspring distribution in ...

The range of correlation coefficient of any bivariate discrete random vector with finite or countably infinite values is derived. We show analytically that the normal-transformed discrete bivariate ...

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