Branching processes
Subtitle: variation, growth, and extinction of populations
By: Patsy Haccou, Peter Jagers, Vladimir A. Vatutin
Contributors: Jagers, Peter, 1941-; Vatutin, V. A. (Vladimir Alekseevich); International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Edition: Digitally printed version.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Cambridge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9780521539852
Subjects: Branching processes; Population biology
Other titles: Variation, growth, and extinction of populations
Description: "Branching processes play an increasingly important role in models of genetics, molecular biology, microbiology, ecology, and evolutionary theory. This book presents this body of mathematical ideas for a biological audience, but should also be enjoyable to mathematicians, if only for its rich stock of realistic biological examples. It can be read by anyone with a basic command of calculus, matrix algebra, and probability theory. More advanced results from basic probability theory are treated in a special appendix."--Back cover.
Notes: Digital reprint. Originally published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2005. (Cambridge studies in adaptive dynamics ; 5).

Includes bibliographical references (p. 295-305) and index.
Table of contents: title: Generalities; title: Discrete-time branching processes; title: Branching in continuous time; title: Large populations; title: Extinction; title: Development of populations; title: Specific models.