This book 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 the modelling can be done and for what types of problems branching processes can be useful. As an aid to understanding specific examples, two introductory chapters provide background material in mathematics and biology. Scientists who work in quantitative modelling of biological systems, particularly probabilists, mathematical biologists, biostatisticians,
| Author: Marek Kimmel |
| Publisher: Springer |
| Publication Date: Dec 01, 2010 |
| Number of Pages: 232 pages |
| Binding: Paperback or Softback |
| ISBN-10: 1441929584 |
| ISBN-13: 9781441929587 |