STOCHASTIC MODELS IN THE LIFE SCIENCES AND THEIR METHODS OF ANALYSIS - Hardcover

Frederic Y M Wan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9813274603 ISBN 13: 9789813274600

Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Co, 2019

Synopsis

Biological processes are evolutionary in nature and often evolve in a noisy environment or in the presence of uncertainty. Such evolving phenomena are necessarily modeled mathematically by stochastic differential/difference equations (SDE), which have been recognized as essential for a true understanding of many biological phenomena. Yet, there is a dearth of teaching material in this area for interested students and researchers, notwithstanding the addition of some recent texts on stochastic modelling in the life sciences. The reason may well be the demanding mathematical pre-requisites needed to "solve" SDE. A principal goal of this volume is to provide a working knowledge of SDE based on the premise that familiarity with the basic elements of a stochastic calculus for random processes is unavoidable. Through some SDE models of familiar biological phenomena, we show how stochastic methods developed for other areas of science and engineering are also useful in the life sciences. In the process, the volume introduces to biologists a collection of analytical and computational methods for research and applications in this emerging area of life science. The additions broaden the available tools for SDE models for biologists that have been limited by and large to stochastic simulations.

Readership: Undergraduates, graduates, research students, professionals with interests in mathematical biology, stochastic processes and infectious diseases.

Edition details

• Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Co
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 9813274603
• ISBN 13: 9789813274600
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 476