Branching processes as models of progenitor cell populations and estimation of the offspring distributions

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 103, Issue 484, 2008, Pages 1357-1366

  Yakovlev, Andrei Y ^a   Stoimenova, Vessela K ^b   Yanev, Nikolay M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICS AND INFORMATICS   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

Cell proliferation; Multitype branching process; Offspring distribution; Statistical estimator.

Indexed keywords

EID: 78249257398     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/016214508000000913     Document Type: Article

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