The birth-death-mutation process: A new paradigm for Fat tailed distributions

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2011, Pages

  Maruvka, Yosef E ^a   Kessler, David A ^a   Shnerb, Nadav M ^a  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BIRTH DEATH MUTATION PROCESS; EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHM; EVOLUTIONARY DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; FAT TAILED DISTRIBUTION; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NATURAL SELECTION; POWER ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; THEORETICAL STUDY;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BIRTH RATE; HUMANS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MORTALITY; MUTATION; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; SELECTION, GENETIC; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84855915199     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0026480     Document Type: Article

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