Branching processes in biology

DOI10.1007/978-1-4939-1559-0zbMath1312.92004OpenAlexW1559984321MaRDI QIDQ5920677

Marek Kimmel, David A. Axelrod

Publication date: 30 July 2014

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-1559-0

zbMATH Keywords

branching processGalton-Watson processpolymerase chain reactionBellman-Harris processmultitype processgene amplificationage-dependent processcancer mutationsDNA repeats

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of branching processes (60J85) Branching processes (Galton-Watson, birth-and-death, etc.) (60J80) General biology and biomathematics (92B05) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to biology (92-02)

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