A superstatistical model of metastasis and cancer survival

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

Volumn 387, Issue 13, 2008, Pages 3162-3172

  Leon Chen, L ^a   Beck, Christian ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cancer; Metastasis; Superstatistics; Survival distributions

Indexed keywords

INVERSE PROBLEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PATIENT MONITORING; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; TUMORS;

METASTASIS; NONEQUILIBRIUM SYSTEM; SUPERSTATISTICS; SURVIVAL DISTRIBUTIONS;

STATISTICAL TESTS;

EID: 40849137597     PISSN: 03784371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2008.01.116     Document Type: Article

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