Reading the Secrets of Biological Fluctuations
Author(s) -
Carl Boettiger
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
nature precedings
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1756-0357
DOI - 10.1038/npre.2010.4949.1
Subject(s) - statistical physics , noise (video) , reading (process) , dynamics (music) , stochastic dynamics , computer science , population , dissipation , master equation , fluctuation dissipation theorem , physics , artificial intelligence , sociology , quantum mechanics , acoustics , demography , political science , law , image (mathematics) , quantum
I explore tools and applications of the van Kampen expansion of the stochastic master equation in several areas of population biology. I highlight fluctuation-dissipation and fluctuation-enhancement regimes, using information from noise to help model choice, and examples where noise changes the macroscopic dynamics of a system
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