Branching Processes in Biology

• Main Authors: Kimmel, Marek (Author), Axelrod, David E. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Edition: 2nd ed. 2015.
• Series: Interdisciplinary Applied Mathematics, 19
• Subjects: Mathematics.; Bioinformatics.; Cell biology.; Probabilities.; Biomathematics.; Statistics.; Mathematical and Computational Biology.; Statistics for Life Sciences, Medicine, Health Sciences.; Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes.; Cell Biology.

This book provides a theoretical background of branching processes and discusses their biological applications. Branching processes are a well-developed and powerful set of tools in the field of applied probability. The range of applications considered includes molecular biology, cellular biology, h...

Table of Contents:

• Motivating Examples and Other Preliminaries
• Biological Background
• The Galton-Watson Process
• The Age-Dependent Process: Markov Case
• The Bellman-Harris Process
• Multitype Processes
• Branching Processes with Infinitely Many Types
• Genealogies of Branching Processes and their Applications
• References.