Stochastic Processes and Population Growth

MUTATIONS OF BACTERIA FROM VIRUS SENSITIVITY TO VIRUS RESISTANCE

S. E. Luria, M. Delbrück · Genetics · 1943 · 3.9K citations

Life Sciences, Genetics, Microbiology +17

The Relation Between the Number of Species and the Number of Individuals in a Random Sample of an Animal Population

R. A. Fisher, A. Steven Corbet, C. B. Williams · Journal of Animal Ecology · 1943 · 3.5K citations

Life Sciences, Biology, Entomology +15

ON THE USE OF MATRICES IN CERTAIN POPULATION MATHEMATICS

Paula Leslie · Biometrika · 1945 · 2.7K citations

Natural Sciences, Mathematics, Applied Mathematics +10

On the Generalized "Birth-and-Death" Process

David G. Kendall · The Annals of Mathematical Statistics · 1948 · 921 citations · Full text

Social Sciences, Demography, Population Biology +14

An Inquiry into the Nature of Frequency Distributions Representative of Multiple Happenings with Particular Reference to the Occurrence of Multiple Attacks of Disease or of Repeated Accidents

Major Greenwood, George Yule · Journal Of The Royal Statistical Society · 1920 · 842 citations

Natural Sciences, Mathematics, Epidemiology +16