Stochastic models for aggregation processes

Mathematical Biosciences

Volumn 165, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 135-145

  Duerr, Hans Peter ^a   Dietz, Klaus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aggregation; Beta binomial distribution; Geometric distribution; Grouping; Partitions; Waring distribution

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATION; GROUP SIZE; MODELING; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGY; ECOLOGY; GEOMETRY; GROUP DYNAMICS; PROBABILITY; STATISTICS; STOCHASTIC MODEL;

ANIMALS; BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION; ECOLOGY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 0034053638     PISSN: 00255564     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0025-5564(00)00014-6     Document Type: Article

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