TY - JOUR T1 - Stochastic Models for Population Dynamics JF - bioRxiv DO - 10.1101/031237 SP - 031237 AU - Sean X. Sun Y1 - 2015/01/01 UR - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2015/12/03/031237.abstract N2 - Cell growth and division are stochastic processes that exhibit significant amount of cell-to-cell variation and randomness. In order to connect single cell division dynamics with overall cell population, stochastic population models are needed. We summarize the basic concepts, computational approaches and discuss simple applications of this modeling approach to understanding cancer cell population growth as well as population fluctuations in experiments. ER -