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Second and third orders asymptotic expansions for the distribution of particles in a branching random walk with a random environment in time
Consider a branching random walk in which the offspring distribution and the
moving law both depend on an independent and identically distributed random
environment indexed by the time.For the normalised counting measure of the
number of particles of generation in a given region, we give the second and
third orders asymptotic expansions of the central limit theorem under rather
weak assumptions on the moments of the underlying branching and moving laws.
The obtained results and the developed approaches shed light on higher order
expansions. In the proofs, the Edgeworth expansion of central limit theorems
for sums of independent random variables, truncating arguments and martingale
approximation play key roles. In particular, we introduce a new martingale,
show its rate of convergence, as well as the rates of convergence of some known
martingales, which are of independent interest.Comment: Accepted by Bernoull
Cram\'{e}r moderate deviations for a supercritical Galton-Watson process
Let be a supercritical Galton-Watson process. The
Lotka-Nagaev estimator is a common estimator for the offspring
mean.In this paper, we establish some Cram\'{e}r moderate deviation results for
the Lotka-Nagaev estimator via a martingale method. Applications to
construction of confidence intervals are also given
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