A stochastic Gompertz birth-death process (Q1071674)
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A stochastic Gompertz birth-death process (English)
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1986
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The deterministic Gompertz growth function is extended to stochastic Gompertz birth-and-death processes in order to describe more realistically cancer growth especially of tumors containing only a small numbers of cells. It is announced that the application of such models to the description and analysis of experimental data by means of two-stage models of carcinogenesis taking tumor progression into account will be discussed elsewhere.
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absolute probability
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first four cumulants
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absorption probability
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nonhomogeneous birth-death process
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stochastic Gompertz birth-and-death processes
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cancer growth
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