Galton–Watson process
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galton-watson-process-183-13184391
title:
Galton–Watson process
text:
The Galton–Watson process is a branching stochastic process arising from Francis Galton's statistical investigation of the extinction of family names. The process models family names as patrilineal, while offspring are randomly either male or female, and names become extinct if the family name line dies out. This is an accurate description of Y chromosome transmission in genetics, and the model is thus useful for understanding human Y-chromosome DNA haplogroups. Likewise, since mitochondria are
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Model for the extinction of family names
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galton%E2%80%93Watson_process
date created:
2003-10-27T00:52:38Z
date modified:
2024-09-06T23:04:53Z
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