附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-195) and index.
Preface; Contents; Guide to Applications, or How to Read This Book; 1 Motivating Examples and Other Preliminaries; 2 Biological Background; 3 The Galton-Watson Process; 4 The Age-Dependent Process: The Markov Case; 5 The Bellman-Harris Process; 6 Multitype Processes; 7 Branching Processes with Infinitely Many Types; 8 References; A: Multivariate Probability Generating Functions; B: Probability Distributions for the Bellman-Harris Process; C: General Processes; D: Glossaries; Index.
摘要:This title introduces biological examples of Branching Processes from molecular and cellular biology as well as from the fields of human evolution and medicine and discusses them in the context of the relevant mathematics, providing a useful introduction to how modelling can be done and for what types of problems branching processes can be useful.
