Stochastic Models with Applications to Genetics, Cancers, AIDS and Other Biomedical Systems (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789810248680)

This book presents a systematic treatment of Markov chains, diffusion processes and state space models, as well as alternative approaches to Markov chains through stochastic difference equations and stochastic differential equations. It illustrates how these processes and approaches are applied to many problems in genetics, carcinogenesis, AIDS epidemiology and other biomedical systems.One feature of the book is that it describes the basic MCMC (Markov chain and Monte Carlo) procedures and illustrates how to use the Gibbs sampling method and the multilevel Gibbs sampling method to solve many problems in genetics, carcinogenesis, AIDS and other biomedical systems.As another feature, the book develops many state space models for many genetic problems, carcinogenesis, AIDS epidemiology and HIV pathogenesis. It shows in detail how to use the multilevel Gibbs sampling method to estimate (or predict) simultaneously the state variables and the unknown parameters in cancer chemotherapy, carcinogenesis, AIDS epidemiology and HIV pathogenesis. As a matter of fact, this book is the first to develop many state space models for many genetic problems, carcinogenesis and other biomedical problems.

Author: Wai-Yuan Tan
ISBN-10: 9810248687
ISBN-13: 9789810248680
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
Language: English
Published: 02/27/2002
Pages: 460
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.60lbs
Size: 8.94h x 6.00w x 1.13d