Extinction of metastable stochastic populations

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 81, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

  Assaf, Michael ^a   Meerson, Baruch ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORBING STATE; BRILLOUIN; DETAILED BALANCE; ENTROPIC BARRIER; FIXED POINTS; MASTER EQUATIONS; META-STABLE STATE; MULTISTEP PROCESS; POPULATION SIZES; PREEXPONENTIAL FACTOR; QUASI-STATIONARY; RATE EQUATIONS; SINGLE-STEP PROCESS; STOCHASTIC POPULATION; TIME-TO-EXTINCTION; WKB APPROXIMATIONS;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; POPULATION STATISTICS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

EID: 76749134243     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.81.021116     Document Type: Article

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