Population dynamics: Poisson approximation and its relation to the Langevin process

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 86, Issue 18, 2001, Pages 4183-4186

  Aparicio, Juan P ^a,b   Solari, Hernán G ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INTEGRATION; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; RANDOM PROCESSES; STATISTICAL TESTS;

FINITE SIZE SYSTEMS; LANGEVIN PROCESS; POISSON APPROXIMATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; STOCHASTIC EVOLUTION PROCESS;

EPIDEMIOLOGY;

POISSON DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; STATISTICS;

POISSON DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 0035971299     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.86.4183     Document Type: Article

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