Parameter identifiability and redundancy: Theoretical considerations

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Little, Mark P ^a   Heidenreich, Wolfgang F ^b   Li, Guangquan ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CANCER MODEL; DATA ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PARAMETER; PARAMETER IDENTIFIABILITY; REDUNDANCY ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STOCHASTIC MODEL; THEORETICAL MODEL;

LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY;

EID: 77952527470     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0008915     Document Type: Article

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