Long-range predictability in models of cell populations subjected to phase-specific drugs: Growth-rate approximation using properties of positive compact operators

Mathematical Models and Methods in Applied Sciences

Volumn 16, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2006, Pages 1155-1172

  Kheifetz, Y ^a   Kogan, Y ^a   Agur, Z ^a  

^a Institute for Medical Biomathematics Isarel   (Israel)

Author keywords

Biological measurement error; Cancer modelling; Compact operators; Numerical approximations; Population dynamics; Spectral radius evaluation

Indexed keywords

EID: 33750039374     PISSN: 02182025     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0218202506001492     Document Type: Article

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