Abstract
We discuss the role of stochastic processes in modelling the life-cycle of a biological cell and the growth of cell populations. Results for multiphase age-dependent branching processes have proved invaluable for the interpretation of many of the basic experimental studies of the life-cycle. Moreover problems from cell kinetics, in particular those related to diurnal rhythm in cell-growth, have stimulated research into ‘periodic' renewal theory, and the asymptotic behaviour of populations of cells with periodic death rate.
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Subject
Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty,General Mathematics,Statistics and Probability