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galton-watson process

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.37 in modern English

Syllables
gal-ton-wat-son pro-cess
IPA
27
Scrabble Score
19
Letters
5
Syllables
12
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A branching stochastic process arising from the statistical investigation of the extinction of family names, which are modelled as patrilineal, while offspring are randomly either male or female, and names become extinct if holders die without male descendants. It is useful in understanding human Y-chromosome DNA haplogroups.

Etymology

Devised by Francis Galton and Henry William Watson and published in an 1874 paper.

Inflected Forms

Galton-Watson processes (plural)

Questions

What does galton-watson process mean?
A branching stochastic process arising from the statistical investigation of the extinction of family names, which are modelled as patrilineal, while offspring are randomly either male or female, and names become extinct if holders die without male descendants. It is useful in understanding human Y-chromosome DNA haplogroups.
Where does galton-watson process come from?
Devised by Francis Galton and Henry William Watson and published in an 1874 paper.

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