Immortal branching markov processes: Averaging properties and pcr applications

Annals of Probability

Volumn 32, Issue 1 A, 2004, Pages 337-364

  Piau, Didier ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

Author keywords

Dna amplification; Error prone pcr; Estimation; Galton watson process; Markov branching process; Mean field approximation; Mutation rate; Polymerase chain reaction (pcr)

Indexed keywords

EID: 2142708291     PISSN: 00911798     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/aop/1078415838     Document Type: Article

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