Mean field mutation dynamics and the continuous Luria-Delbrück distribution

Mathematical Biosciences

Volumn 240, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 223-230

  Kashdan, Eugene ^a   Pareschi, Lorenzo ^b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Fokker Planck equations; Kinetic models; Luria Delbr ck distribution; Mutation rates

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS DISTRIBUTION; DIFFERENTIAL MODELS; KINETIC MODELS; MATHEMATICAL TOOLS; MEAN FIELD; MUTATION RATES; NUMERICAL RESULTS; STATISTICAL PHYSICS;

MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES; STATISTICS;

TIMING JITTER;

MUTATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; THEORETICAL STUDY;

ARTICLE; FOKKER PLANCK EQUATION; LURIA DELBRUCK DISTRIBUTION; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; MUTATION; MUTATION RATE; NONLINEAR SYSTEM;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; KINETICS; MODELS, GENETIC; MONTE CARLO METHOD; MUTATION; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTIONS;

LURIA;

EID: 84867857489     PISSN: 00255564     EISSN: 18793134     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mbs.2012.08.001     Document Type: Article

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