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  title info:
    title: Some new techniques in compartmental modeling
  name:
    name part: Zheng, Qi
    name part: 1958-
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Makela, Merry E.
    role:
      role term: degree committee member.
  name:
    name part: Matis, James H.
    role:
      role term: degree supervisor.
  name:
    name part: Parzen, Emanuel
    role:
      role term: degree committee member.
  name:
    name part: Wehrly, Thomas E.
    role:
      role term: degree committee member.
  name:
    name part: Texas A & M University
    role:
      role term: degree granting institution.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Academic theses.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xx
    date issued: 1993
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: ix, 94 leaves : illustrations ; 28 cm
  abstract: C om partm ental models have been widely used in natural and biomedical sciences for several decades. This dissertation proposes and studies some new techniques in th e theory and applications of stochastic com partm ental analysis. C hapters II and III concentrate on m atching transition tim e moments when th e com partm ental process is non-M arkovian. The well-established theory of gam m a com partm ents is generalized to include com partm ents with phasetype transition tim e distributions. Numerical examples from anim al science are given. C hapters IV and V deal w ith com partm ental models w ith reproducing particles. Specifically, C hapter IV investigates some properties concerning the higher order cum ulants of a tw o-com partm ent model known as the steppingstone model, and C hapter V proposes a finite m ixture m ethod for constructing discrete m ultivariate distributions. D istributions so constructed are applied to approxim ate th e joint distribution of the stepping-stone model by m atching first and second order moments. This technique is illustrated by an example from entomology. C hapter VI proposes two problems for further research w ith some prelim inary results presented: (i) m am m illary systems w ith a birth mechanism; and (ii) random transfer rate coefficients in com partm ental analysis. For (i) the m ean value function is studied and for (ii) th e asym ptotic expansion technique is introduced.
  note: by Qi Zheng.
  note: "Major subject: Statistics."
  note: Vita.
  note: Ph. D. Texas A & M University 1993
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
  subject:
    topic: Major statistics
  identifier: https://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/DISSERTATIONS-1521994
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  record info:
    record content source: TXA
    record creation date: 960319
    record change date: 20220103134921.0
    record identifier: in00001258562
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng