On Haldane's formulation of Luria and Delbrück's mutation model

Mathematical Biosciences

Volumn 209, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 500-513

  Zheng, Qi ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Luria Delbr ck model; Maximum likelihood principle; Mutation rate; Synchronous cell growth

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CELL GROWTH; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD;

MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD PRINCIPLE; MUTANTS; MUTATION RATE; SYNCHRONOUS CELL GROWTH;

MUTAGENESIS;

ERROR CORRECTION; GROWTH RATE; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS; MODELING; MUTATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; SYNCHRONY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CELL GROWTH; COMPARATIVE STUDY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; MUTANT; MUTATION;

ALGORITHMS; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MARKOV CHAINS; MATHEMATICS; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION;

LURIA;

EID: 34548590559     PISSN: 00255564     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mbs.2007.03.003     Document Type: Article

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