Classical and Spatial Stochastic Processes With Applications to Biology /

• Main Author: Schinazi, Rinaldo B. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Birkhäuser, 2014.
• Edition: 2nd ed. 2014.
• Subjects: Mathematics.; Applied mathematics.; Engineering mathematics.; Probabilities.; Biomathematics.; Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes.; Genetics and Population Dynamics.; Physiological, Cellular and Medical Topics.; Appl.Mathematics/Computational Methods of Engineering.; Applications of Mathematics.

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 i...

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.       .