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...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: Population Without Age
• The Life Table
• The Matrix Model Framework
• Mortality Comparisons; The Male-Female Ratio
• Fixed Regime of Mortality and Fertility: The Uses of Stable Theory
• Birth and Population Increase from the Life Table
• Birth and Population Increase from Matrix Population Models
• Reproductive Value from the Life Table
• Reproductive Value from Matrix Models
• Understanding Population Characteristics
• Markov Chains for Individual Life Histories
• Projection and Forecasting
• Perturbation Analysis of Matrix Models
• Some Types of Instability
• The Demographic Theory of Kinship
• Microdemography
• The Multi-State Model
• Family Demography
• Heterogeneity and Selection in Population Analysis
• Epilogue: How Do We Know the Facts of Demography?.