Studio di modelli statistici per correlare la probabilità di insorgenza del cancro con le dimensioni degli animali: paradosso di Peto

In this thesis we have tried to refute the Peto’s paradox: why an elephant, or whale with more cells than human, has approximately the same cancer risk as human? We used two statistical models to predict the likelihood of onset of tumors. With appropriate corrections and numerical analysis we gave two possible explanation of the paradox. We have also analyzed some experimental data.