Fixation of strategies for an evolutionary game in finite populations

Bulletin of Mathematical Biology

Volumn 68, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1923-1944

  Antal, Tibor ^a,b   Scheuring, István ^b  

^a Boston University   (United States)

^b EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Evolutionary game; Fixation time; Moran process; Random walk; Stochastic dynamics

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; EVOLUTION; GAME; HUMAN; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; STATISTICS;

EVOLUTION; GAME THEORY; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 33750734680     PISSN: 00928240     EISSN: 15229602     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11538-006-9061-4     Document Type: Article

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