A general stochastic model for nucleation and linear growth

Annals of Applied Probability

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 903-921

  Holst, L ^a   Quine, M P ^b   Robinson, J ^b  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Cell biology; Crystal aggregates; DNA; Inhibition; Nucleation; Piecewise deterministic Markov processes; Shear transformation; Synapses

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030502150     PISSN: 10505164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/aoap/1034968233     Document Type: Article

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