Branching processes in biology

zbMath0994.92001MaRDI QIDQ5915495

Publication date: 27 June 2002

Published in: Interdisciplinary Applied Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

cell division; chemotherapy; cell cycle; genealogies; clonal resistance of cancer cells; Luria-Delbrück model; probability generating function method; telomere sequences

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

60J85: Applications of branching processes

92C50: Medical applications (general)

92C40: Biochemistry, molecular biology

92C37: Cell biology

92B05: General biology and biomathematics

92-02: Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to biology

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