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Some aspects of the stochastic model for the attachment of phages to bacteria

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2016

R. C. Srivastava*
Affiliation:
Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio

Extract

Recently Gani (1965) has considered a stochastic model for the attachment of phages to bacteria. In this paper we study some of the basic properties of this model. These results will be used in a subsequent paper dealing with the estimation of the parameter which occurs in this model.

Type
Research Papers
Copyright
Copyright © Applied Probability Trust 

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