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The organizers of this conference invited papers that dealt with biological systems which might contain models of interest to engineers and mathematicians. It is the purpose of the present report to bring to your attention a case where the biological model is sufficiently simple that ordinary biostatistics can separate the error component from main effects, but where the essential complexity is such that the best available description comes from probability models applied to engineering.
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Whitlock, J.H. (1962). Bionics and Experimental Epidemiology. In: Bernard, E.E., Kare, M.R. (eds) Biological Prototypes and Synthetic Systems. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-1716-6_7
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