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Record Nr.

UNISA996466385003316

Titolo

Stochastic spatial processes : mathematical theories and biological applications: Proceedings of a conference held in Heidelberg, 1984 / / edited by P. Tautu

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin : , : Springer-Verlag, , [1986]

©1986

ISBN

3-540-47053-0

Edizione

[1st ed. 1986.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (VIII, 312 p.)

Collana

Lecture notes in mathematics ; ; 1212

Disciplina

519.2

Soggetti

Stochastic processes

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di contenuto

Stochastic spatial processes in biology: A concise historical survey -- Tests for space-time clustering -- Age distributions in birth and death processes -- Critical clustering in the two dimensional voter model -- Measure-valued processes Construction, qualitative behavior and stochastic geometry -- Dual processes in population genetics -- Some peculiar properties of a particle system with sexual reproduction -- Computer simulation of developmental processes in biology: Models for the developing limb -- Asymptotics and spatial growth of branching random fields -- Generation-dependent branching processes with immigration: convergence of distributions -- On a class of infinite particle systems evolving in a random environment -- Percolation processes and dimensionality -- Birth and death processes with killing and applications to parasitic infections -- Limit theorems for multitype branching random walks -- On the reproduction rate of the spatial general epidemic -- Nearest particle systems: Results and open problems -- Neutral models of geographical variation -- Stochastic measure diffusions as models of growth and spread -- L 2 convergence of certain random walks on Z d and related diffusions -- Random fields: Applications in cell biology -- Correlated percolation and repulsive particle systems.

Sommario/riassunto

Proceedings of a Conference held in Heidelberg, September 10 - 14, 1984.