Title : 
Comments on "Controllability, Observability and Structural Identifiability of Multi Input and Multi Output Biological Compartmental Systems
         
        
            Author : 
Delforge, Jacques
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Commissariata l´´Energie Atomiquc, Centre d´´Etudes Nucleaires de Saclay, Departement de Biologie
         
        
        
        
            fDate : 
7/1/1978 12:00:00 AM
         
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
In a recent paper,1 a criterion of structural identifiability for a system of biological compartments was given. Two comments are here made which show, in particular, that the proposed criterion is a necessary but not a sufficient condition for a finite number of solutions (not necessarily just one).
         
        
            Keywords : 
Biological system modeling; Controllability; Differential equations; Laplace equations; Nonlinear equations; Observability; Polynomials; Sufficient conditions; Tellurium; Vectors; Models, Biological;
         
        
        
            Journal_Title : 
Biomedical Engineering, IEEE Transactions on
         
        
        
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/TBME.1978.326273