ArticlePloS one2015
Pools versus Queues: The Variable Dynamics of Stochastic "Steady States".
Article in PloS one, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.
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Abstract
Mathematical models in ecology and epidemiology often consider populations "at equilibrium", where in-flows, such as births, equal out-flows, such as death. For stochastic models, what is meant by equilibrium is less clear--should the population size be fixed or growing and shrinking with equal probability? Two different mechanisms to implement a stochastic steady state are considered. Under these mechanisms, both a predator-prey model and an epidemic model have vastly different outcomes, including the median population values for both predators and prey and the median levels of infection within a hospital (P < 0.001 for all comparisons). These results suggest that the question of how a stochastic steady state is modeled, and what it implies for the dynamics of the system, should be carefully considered.
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