Mathematical models of biological systems /
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| Author / Creator: | Berg, Hugo van den, 1968- |
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| Imprint: | Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011. |
| Description: | xiii, 236 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Oxford biology Oxford biology. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8302922 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- 1. What models can do for the life sciences
- 2. Basic modelling concepts and techniques
- 3. Working with Ordinary Differential Equations
- 4. Models and data analysis
- 5. Modelling principles
- 6. Growth of populations and of individuals
- 7. Infection and immunity
- 8. Physiology
- 9. Stochastic models
- Appendix A. Maths miscellany
- Appendix B. From Boltzmann to Nernst
- Appendix C. Ultimate behaviour of a closed, connected, compartmental system
- Appendix D. Buckingham's theorem
- Appendix E. Minimising the sum of squares with respect to the parameters
- Appendix F. Global sensitivity analysis: parameter transformations for 'large' systems
- Index
