title: Varieties of stochastic model: a comparative study of the Gompertz effect.
abstract: A comparative study is made of various models for the Gompertz phenomenon, which is a form of growth rate limitation in population dynamics. Deterministic, Markov birth-death, diffusion and stochastic differential equation models are studied, with a view to assessing their advantages and limitations.
authors.affiliation: Department of Statistics, Birkbeck College, London, U.K.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Holgate
mesh_terms: D008954:Models, Biological; D011157:Population Dynamics; D011158:Population Growth; D013223:Statistics as Topic; D013269:Stochastic Processes