Applied Mathematical Demography

• Main Authors: Keyfitz, Nathan (Author), Caswell, Hal (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2005.
• Edition: Third Edition.
• Series: Statistics for Biology and Health,
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Ecology.; Biomathematics.; Statistics.; Environmental sciences.; Demography.; Social Sciences.; Math. Appl. in Environmental Science.; Statistics for Life Sciences, Medicine, Health Sciences.; Statistics for Social Science, Behavorial Science, Education, Public Policy, and Law.; Mathematical and Computational Biology.

The third edition of this classic text maintains its focus on applications of demographic models, while extending its scope to matrix models for stage-classified populations. The authors first introduce the life table to describe age-specific mortality, and then use it to develop theory for stable p...