A DIALYSIS SYSTEM WITH ONE ABSORBING AND ONE SEMI-REFLECTING STATE.

Abstract

The random walk between an absorbing and a reflecting or semi-reflecting barrier has been discussed in the literature. Indeed, a biological example of such a random walk, arising from a system of countercurrent dialysis, was described by this author. In this earlier paper a technique was suggested for obtaining the probability of being in a specific state after a given number of transitions, if the probability is unity of being in the reflecting state at time zero. The present paper extends this technique to yield the full matrix of higher transition probabilities. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 01, 1966
Accession Number
AD0630754

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  • Marvin A. Kastenbaum

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DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Dialysis
  • Literature
  • Mathematics
  • Probability
  • Random Walk
  • Transitions

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  • Cardiovascular Physiology
  • Mathematical Modeling and Probability Theory.