Empirical Bayes Estimators for Borel { TannerDistributionGeorge
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The Borel-Tanner probability distribution was derived by Borel (1942) and Tanner (1953) to characterize the distribution behavior of the number of customers served in a queuing system with Poisson input and constant service time. Later this probability distribution was applied in some models for random trees and branching processes. In the latter case one of the parameters can be interpreted as the oospring mean in a Galton-Watson process with Poisson reproduction law. We propose empirical Bayes estimators for this parameter.
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