Application of the combined nonlinear-condensation transformation to problems in statistical analysis and theoretical physics

Computer Physics Communications

Volumn 150, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 1-20

  Aksenov, Sergej V ^a,b   Savageau, Michael A ^a   Jentschura, Ulrich D ^c,d   Becher, Jens ^c   Soff, Gerhard ^c   Mohr, Peter J ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Computational techniques; DNA; Folding and sequence analysis; Numerical approximation and analysis; RNA

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; PROBLEM SOLVING; STATISTICAL MECHANICS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTIONS;

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS;

EID: 0037448182     PISSN: 00104655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-4655(02)00627-6     Document Type: Article

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