Uniform Cramér moderate deviations and Berry-Esseen bounds for a supercritical branching process in a random environment

Abstract

Let \{Z_n,\mathrm{}n\ge \mathrm{0}\}be a supercritical branching process in an independent and identically distributed random environment. We prove Cramér moderate deviations and Berry-Esseen bounds for log(Z_{n+n_{\mathrm{0}}}/Z_{n_{\mathrm{0}}}) uniformly in n_{\mathrm{0}}\in \mathbb{Z},which extend the corresponding results by I. Grama, Q. Liu, and M. Miqueu [Stochastic Process. Appl., 2017, 127: 1255–1281] established for n_{\mathrm{0}}=\mathrm{}\mathrm{0}. The extension is interesting in theory, and is motivated by applications. A new method is developed for the proofs; some conditions of Grama et al. are relaxed in our present setting. An example of application is given in constructing confidence intervals to estimate the criticality parameter in terms of log(Z_{n+n_{\mathrm{0}}}/Z_{n_{\mathrm{0}}}) and n.

Key words： Branching processes; random environment; Cramér moderate deviations; Berry-Esseen bounds

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