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  title info:
    title: Classical and Spatial Stochastic Processes
    sub title: With Applications to Biology
  name:
    name part: Schinazi, Rinaldo B.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xxu
    date issued: 2014
    edition: 2nd ed. 2014.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XII, 268 p. 10 illus. online resource.
  abstract: The revised and expanded edition of this textbook presents the concepts and applications of random processes with the same illuminating simplicity as its first edition, but with the notable addition of substantial modern material on biological modeling. While still treating many important problems in fields such as engineering and mathematical physics, the book also focuses on the highly relevant topics of cancerous mutations, influenza evolution, drug resistance, and immune response. The models used elegantly apply various classical stochastic models presented earlier in the text, and exercises are included throughout to reinforce essential concepts. The second edition of Classical and Spatial Stochastic Processes is suitable as a textbook for courses in stochastic processes at the advanced-undergraduate and graduate levels, or as a self-study resource for researchers and practitioners in mathematics, engineering, physics, and mathematical biology. Reviews of the first edition: An appetizing textbook for a first course in stochastic processes. It guides the reader in a very clever manner from classical ideas to some of the most interesting modern results. … All essential facts are presented with clear proofs, illustrated by beautiful examples. … The book is well organized, has informative chapter summaries, and presents interesting exercises. The clear proofs are concentrated at the ends of the chapters making it easy to find the results. The style is a good balance of mathematical rigorosity and user-friendly explanation. —Biometric Journal This small book is well-written and well-organized. ... Only simple results are treated ... but at the same time many ideas needed for more complicated cases are hidden and in fact very close. The second part is a really elementary introduction to the area of spatial processes. ... All sections are easily readable and it is rather tentative for the reviewer to learn them more deeply by organizing a course based on this book. Th…
  table of contents: Discrete-Time Markov Chains -- Stationary Distributions of a Markov Chain -- Continuous-Time Birth and Death Markov Chains -- Percolation -- A Cellular Automaton -- Continuous-Time Branching Random Walk -- The Contact Process on a Homogeneous Tree -- Appendix: Some Facts About Probabilities on Countable Spaces -- Applications to Population Biology.- References. .
  note: by Rinaldo B. Schinazi.
  subject:
    topic: Mathematics
  subject:
    topic: Applied mathematics
  subject:
    topic: Engineering mathematics
  subject:
    topic: Probabilities
  subject:
    topic: Biomathematics
  subject:
    topic: Mathematics
  subject:
    topic: Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes
  subject:
    topic: Genetics and Population Dynamics
  subject:
    topic: Physiological, Cellular and Medical Topics
  subject:
    topic: Appl.Mathematics/Computational Methods of Engineering
  subject:
    topic: Applications of Mathematics
  classification: QA273.A1-274.9
  classification: QA274-274.9
  classification: 519.2
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