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3: Stochastic Population Growth

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Our derivation of the Malthusian growth model implicitly assumed a large population size. Smaller populations exhibit stochastic effects and these can considerably complicate the modeling. Since in general, modeling stochastic processes in biology is an important yet difficult topic, we will spend some time here analyzing the simplest model of births in finite populations.


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