A many-body field theory approach to stochastic models in population biology

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 9, 2009, Pages

  Dodd, Peter J ^a   Ferguson, Neil M ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCULATION; DYNAMICS; EPIDEMIC; FIELD STUDY; POPULATION BIOLOGY; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PROBABILITY; QUANTUM THEORY; REVIEW; STOCHASTIC MODEL; SYSTEMS THEORY; ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSION; ECOLOGY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BIOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ECOLOGY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMANS; MARKOV CHAINS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 70149105500     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0006855     Document Type: Review

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