Print version: Kondrashov, Dmitry A. Quantifying life : a symbiosis of computation, mathematics, and biology. Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2016 xvi, 417 pages ; 23 cm ISBN 9780226371627
Includes bibliographical references and index
I. Describing single variables -- 1. Arithmetic and variables : the lifeblood of modeling -- 2. Functions and their graphs -- 3. Describing data sets -- 4. Random variables and distributions -- 5. Estimation from a random sample -- II. Relationship between variables -- 6. Independence of random variables -- 7. Bayes’ amazing formula -- 8. Linear regression and correlation -- 9. Nonlinear data fitting -- III. Chains of random variables -- 10. Markov models with discrete states -- 11. Probability distributions of Markov chains -- 12. Stationary distributions of Markov chains -- 13. Dynamics of Markov models -- IV. Variables that change with time -- 14. Linear difference equations -- 15. Linear ordinary differential equations -- 16. Graphical analysis of ordinary differential equations -- 17. Chaos and bifurcations in difference equations.