Some equivalent compartmental models (Q2265976)
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Some equivalent compartmental models (English)
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1983
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Compartmental models with strongly connected digraphs always have a stable equilibrium solution. Each such model may be reduced by a sequence of matrix operations to a mammillary system with the same equilibrium solution. It may also be reduced by a sequence of operations on the digraph. It may then be further reduced to a model whose digraph is a 2- cycle with the same mean first passage time m. If this m is taken as an indicator of the relative stability, then the latter is independent of the complexity as measured by the number of arcs per vertex. In a number of special cases the index m is related to the eigenvalues of the matrix. It is shown to have a simple relation to other time parameters as well.
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Compartmental models
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mammillary system
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