Home » Basic Stochastic Processes » Branching Processes » Covariance of a Branching Process

Covariance of a Branching Process

Show that for a branching process \( (Z_n)\) with expected offspring \(\mu\) one has

\[\mathbf{E}( Z_n Z_m)= \mu^{n-m} \mathbf{E}( Z_m^2)\]

for \(0\leq m\leq n\).

Topics