 Quadratic Galton-Watson extinction bound (source code)

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= Quadratic Galton-Watson extinction bound

For offspring mean $\mu>1$ and variance $\sigma^2$, Taylor expansion at one gives
$$
d\leq1-\frac{2(\mu-1)}{\sigma^2+\mu^2-\mu}
$$
for the extinction probability $d$.

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