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Functional differentiation and integration

A final comment on the interpretation of stochastic simulations We are so accustomed to writing continuous functions—differential and integrated rate equations, commonly called deterministic rate equations—that our first impulse on viewing these stochastic calculations is to interpret them as approximations to the familiar continuous functions. However, we have got this the wrong way around. On a molecular level, events are discrete, not continuous. The continuous functions work so well for us only because we do experiments on veiy large numbers of molecules (typically 10 -10 ). If we could experiment with very much smaller numbers of molecules, we would find that it is the continuous functions that are approximations to the stochastic results. Gillespie has developed the stochastic theory of chemical kinetics without dependence on the deterministic rate equations. [Pg.114]

This book introduces the student of biology and medicine to such topics as sets, real and complex numbers, elementary functions, differential and integral calculus, differential equations, probability, matrices and vectors. [Pg.129]


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