STOCHASTIC COMPARTMENTAL ANALYSIS:SOME APPLICATIONS AND EXAMPLES OF ESTIMATION IN A PULSE LABELLED SYSTEM

摘要

Compartmental analysis, though previously applied mainly to the biomedical sciences, provides a model pertinent to a wide variety of other areas of endeavor. This report illustrates the flexibility of application by citing models from diverse fields which are compartmental in nature.nThe stochastic behavior of the above models is outlined and subsequently used to develop an estimation procedure. Two examples illustrate the application of the estimation technique. The first example, a simulation, demonstrates the weakness of ordinary least squares estimation, which is heretofore used, in stochastic compartmental models. A biological experiment forms the second example and it also confirms the above conclusion.