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Discrete and continuous state population models in a noisy world.

Gábor Domokos1, István Scheuring

  • 1Department of Mechanics, Materials and Structures, Center for Applied Mathematics and Computational Physics, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Budapest, H-1111, Muegyetem rkp.3, Hungary.

Summary

Ecological models using continuous variables can approximate discrete populations if noise is high or dynamics are regular. However, discrete models are more accurate when time series are short relative to population states.

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