Pools versus Queues: The Variable Dynamics of Stochastic "Steady States".

Mathematical models in ecology and epidemiology often consider populations "at equilibrium", where in-flows, such as births, equal out-flows, such as death. For stochastic models, what is meant by equilibrium is less clear--should the population size be fixed or growing and shrinking with...

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Main Author: Eric T Lofgren
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4474550?pdf=render