Applied mathematical demography
type: Item
instance of: scholarly article
title: Applied mathematical demography
zbMATH Open document ID: 1104.91063
author: Nathan Keyfitz
author: Hal Caswell
published in: Statistics for Biology and Health
publication date: 2005-03-30T00:00:00Z
review text: In respect to the preceding editions (1977; Zbl 1060.91519), (1985; Zbl 0597.92018), written only by the first author and dealing with human demography, the present one is considerably enriched by the contribution of the second author, who is a demographer of plants and nonhuman animals. In the tradition of Alfred J. Lotka, the founding father of both demography and ecology, the Greek `demos' is interpreted as referring to both human and nonhuman individuals, so the object of the book is pushed enough far to cover the world of biology. Strong arguments are brought in favor of the claim that ``the boundaries between animal and human studies are becoming increasingly blurred''. By this extension, the book is of interest not only to demographers, but to any scholar interested in biology. The book is organized in 20 chapters, a Bibliography of almost 700 entries and an index. The titles of the chapters are the following: 1. Introduction: population without age; 2. The life table; 3. The matrix model framework; 4. Mortality comparisons; the male-female ratio; 5. Fixed regime of mortality and fertility; 6. Birth and population matrix population models; 8. Reproductive value from the life table; 9. Reproductive value from matrix models; 10. Understanding population characteristics; 11. Markov chains for individual life histories; 12. Projection and forecasting; 13. Perturbation analysis of matrix models; 14. Some types of instability; 15. The demographic theory of kinship; 16. Microdemography; 17. The multi-state model; 18. Family demography; 19. Heterogeneity and selection in population analysis; 20. Epilogue: How do we know the facts of demography?
reviewed by: Solomon Marcus
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 91D20
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 91-01
zbMATH DE Number: 2148995
zbMATH Keywords: demography
zbMATH Keywords: population biology
zbMATH Keywords: mathematical models
zbMATH Keywords: matrices
zbMATH Keywords: matrix population models
MaRDI profile type: Publication
full work available at URL: b139042
OpenAlex ID: W2060375790
Wikidata QID: Q29035987
DOI: 10.1007/B139042
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