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Development Of Nabla Fractional Calculus And A New Approach To Data Fitting In Time Dependent Cancer Therapeutic Study, Nihan Acar

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

The aim of this thesis is to develop discrete fractional models of tumor growth for a given data and to estimate parameters of these models in order to have better data tting. We use discrete nabla fractional calculus because we believe the discrete counterpart of this mathematical theory will give us a better and more accurate outcome.

This thesis consists of ve chapters. In the rst chapter, we give the history of the fractional calculus, and we present some basic de nitions and properties that are used in this theory. We de ne nabla fractional exponential and then nabla fractional …