Chance in Biology : : Using Probability to Explore Nature / / Steven Gaines, Mark Denny.
Life is a chancy proposition: from the movement of molecules to the age at which we die, chance plays a key role in the natural world. Traditionally, biologists have viewed the inevitable "noise" of life as an unfortunate complication. The authors of this book, however, treat random proces...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2011] ©2000 |
Year of Publication: | 2011 |
Edition: | Course Book |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (312 p.) :; 4 halftones, 81 line illus., 7 tables |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1. The Nature of Chance
- 2. Rules of Disorder
- 3. Discrete Patterns of Disorder
- 4. Continuous Patterns of Disorder
- 5. Random Walks
- 6. More Random Walks
- 7. The Statistics of Extremes
- 8. Noise and Perception
- 9. The Answers
- Symbol Index
- Author Index
- Subject Index