Saddlepoint approximations to the moments of multitype age-dependent branching processes, with applications

Biometrics

Volumn 66, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 567-577

  Hyrien, O ^a   Chen, R ^a   Mayer Proschel M ^a   Noble, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cell kinetics; Discretely observed stochastic process; Oligodendrocytes; Pseudo likelihood; Quasi likelihood; Saddlepoint approximation

Indexed keywords

CYTOLOGY; LANTHANUM COMPOUNDS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

AGE-DEPENDENT BRANCHING PROCESS; CELL KINETICS; DISCRETELY OBSERVED STOCHASTIC PROCESS; EXPECTATION AND VARIANCE; MULTITYPE; OLIGODENDROCYTES; PSEUDO-LIKELIHOOD; QUASI-LIKELIHOOD; SADDLE-POINT APPROXIMATION; VARIANCE-COVARIANCE;

RANDOM PROCESSES;

CLONE; COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; CYTOLOGY; STOCHASTICITY; VARIANCE ANALYSIS;

BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL LINEAGE; CYTOLOGY; HELA CELL LINE; HUMAN; OLIGODENDROGLIA; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL MODEL; STEM CELL; THEORETICAL MODEL;

CELL LINEAGE; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OLIGODENDROGLIA; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTIONS; STEM CELLS;

EID: 77952993201     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: 15410420     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1541-0420.2009.01281.x     Document Type: Article

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