Evolutionary stability and quasi-stationary strategy in stochastic evolutionary game dynamics

Journal of Theoretical Biology

Volumn 264, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 874-881

  Zhou, Da ^a   Wu, Bin ^b   Ge, Hao ^c  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Peking University   (China)

^c FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Evolutionary game theory; Finite populations; Quasi stationarity

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTIONARILY STABLE STRATEGY; EVOLUTIONARY THEORY; GAME THEORY; NUMERICAL MODEL; STOCHASTICITY;

ARTICLE; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; EVOLUTION; GAME; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION SIZE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STEADY STATE; STOCHASTIC MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; EVOLUTION; GAME THEORY; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 77952670927     PISSN: 00225193     EISSN: 10958541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2010.03.018     Document Type: Article

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