On a species survival model

Electronic Communications in Probability

Volumn 16, Issue , 2011, Pages 226-233

  Ben Ari, Iddo ^a   Matzavinos, Anastasios ^b   Roitershtein, Alexander ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bak Sneppen model; Birth and death process; Central limit theorem; Evolution; Law of iterated logarithm; Population genetics

Indexed keywords

EID: 79957492748     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1083589X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/ECP.v16-1625     Document Type: Article

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