Family of skewed distributions associated with the gene expression and proteome evolution

Signal Processing

Volumn 83, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 889-910

  Kuznetsov, Vladimir A ^a  

^a EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

Author keywords

Birth death stochastic processes; Evolution; Gene expression; Pareto distribution; Protein domains; Waring distribution

Indexed keywords

MARKOV PROCESSES; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; PROTEINS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

SKEWED DISTRIBUTIONS;

GENES;

EID: 0037399776     PISSN: 01651684     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-1684(02)00481-4     Document Type: Article

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