Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) is a big source of genetic diversity in the bacterial world, where distantly related species swap genes on a regular basis, including those that cause virulence or ...
Linear regression of a random variable against several functions of time is considered. Limit processes are obtained for the sequences of partial sums of residuals. The limit processes, which are ...
Journal of Applied Probability, Vol. 38, No. 2 (Jun., 2001), pp. 519-541 (23 pages) We study the convergence of certain matrix sequences that arise in quasi-birth-and-death (QBD) Markov chains and we ...