On Stochastic Processes in Biology
- 1 September 1953
- journal article
- research article
- Published by JSTOR in Biometrics
- Vol. 9 (3) , 275-289
- https://doi.org/10.2307/3001703
Abstract
This is essentially a review of the development and application of stochastic processes in biology. The discussion outlines several different types of processes and refers to many applications in neural net theory, radiobiology, sociology, epidemiology and communication theory. Forty references are cited.This publication has 4 references indexed in Scilit:
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