Confidence intervals for nonhomogeneous branching processes and polymerase chain reactions

DOI10.1214/009117904000000775zbMath1088.62101arXivmath/0503659MaRDI QIDQ1775447

Didier Piau

Publication date: 3 May 2005

Published in: The Annals of Probability (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0503659

zbMATH Keywords

mutation rate; harmonic moments; immortal branching processes; polymerase chain reactions; sums of exchangeable random variables

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

62M05: Markov processes: estimation; hidden Markov models

60J85: Applications of branching processes

92C45: Kinetics in biochemical problems (pharmacokinetics, enzyme kinetics, etc.)

92C40: Biochemistry, molecular biology

60K37: Processes in random environments

60J80: Branching processes (Galton-Watson, birth-and-death, etc.)

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