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Intended for mathematicians, statisticians, and biologists, as well as advanced graduate students
More material added in the chapter on infinitely-dimensional multitype processes, including the infinitely-dimensional linear-fractional case
Background material expanded.
More than 360 citations, including 100 new citations to recent literature
Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Interdisciplinary Applied Mathematics (IAM, volume 19)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This book provides a theoretical background of branching processes and discusses their biological applications. Branching processes are a well-developed and powerful set of tools in the field of applied probability. The range of applications considered includes molecular biology, cellular biology, human evolution and medicine. The branching processes discussed include Galton-Watson, Markov, Bellman-Harris, Multitype, and General Processes. As an aid to understanding specific examples, two introductory chapters, and two glossaries are included that provide background material in mathematics and in biology. The book will be of interest to scientists who work in quantitative modeling of biological systems, particularly probabilists, mathematical biologists, biostatisticians, cell biologists, molecular biologists, and bioinformaticians. The authors are a mathematician and cell biologist who have collaborated for more than a decade in the field of branching processes in biology for this new edition.
This second expanded edition adds new material published during the last decade, with nearly 200 new references. More material has been added on infinitely-dimensional multitype processes, including the infinitely-dimensional linear-fractional case. Hypergeometric function treatment of the special case of the Griffiths-Pakes infinite allele branching process has also been added. There are additional applications of recent molecular processes and connections with systems biology are explored, and a new chapter on genealogies of branching processes and their applications.
Reviews of First Edition:
"This is a significant book on applications of branching processes in biology, and it is highly recommended for those readers who are interested in the application and development of stochastic models, particularly those with interests in cellular and molecular biology." (Siam Review, Vol. 45 (2), 2003)
“This book will be very interesting and useful for mathematicians, statisticians and biologists as well, and especially for researchers developing mathematical methods in biology, medicine and other natural sciences.” (Short Book Reviews of the ISI, Vol. 23 (2), 2003)
Reviews
“This book is the result … of a fruitful and long collaboration between a mathematician and a cell biologist. Capturing the best of both worlds, the book provides not only the biology and mathematical background for this topic, but also offers numerous examples which render it accessible to (post-graduate) students and researchers … . this book can be treated as an excellent textbook for a wide audience varying from students to lecturers.” (Irina Ioana Mohorianu, zbMATH 1312.92004, 2015)
"This book treats the theory of several important types of branching processes and demonstrates their usefulness by many interesting and important applications. … Mathematical theory and biological applications are nicely interwoven. This text will be useful both to mathematicians (including graduate students) interested in relevant applications of stochastic processes in biology, as well as to mathematically oriented biologists working on the above mentioned topics." (R. Bürger, Monatshefte für Mathematik, Vol. 143 (1), 2004)
"This is a significant book on applications of branching processes in biology, and it is highly recommended for those readers who are interested in the application and development of stochastic models, particularly those with interests in cellular and molecular biology." (Charles J. Mode, Siam Review, Vol. 45 (2), 2003)
"This is a book written jointly by a mathematician and a cell biologist, who have collaborated on research in branching processes for more than a decade. In their own words, their monograph is intended for ‘mathematicians and statisticians who have had an introduction to stochastic processes but have forgotten much of their college biology, and for biologists who wish to collaborate with mathematicians and statisticians.’ They have largely succeeded in achieving their goal. The book can be strongly recommended to all students of branching processes; all libraries should have a copy." —ZENTRALBLATT MATH
Authors and Affiliations
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Department of Statistics, Rice University, Houston, USA
Marek Kimmel
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Nelson Biology Labs,Rutgers University, PISCATAWAY, USA
David E. Axelrod
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Branching Processes in Biology
Authors: Marek Kimmel, David E. Axelrod
Series Title: Interdisciplinary Applied Mathematics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-1559-0
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Mathematics and Statistics, Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4939-1558-3Published: 17 February 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4939-3819-3Published: 05 October 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4939-1559-0Published: 17 February 2015
Series ISSN: 0939-6047
Series E-ISSN: 2196-9973
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: XX, 280
Number of Illustrations: 66 b/w illustrations, 3 illustrations in colour
Topics: Mathematical and Computational Biology, Statistics for Life Sciences, Medicine, Health Sciences, Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes, Bioinformatics, Cell Biology