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Population dynamics proceedings.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Autores Corporativos: | , |
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| Formato: | Electrónico Congresos, conferencias eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York,
Academic Press,
1972.
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| Colección: | Publication ... of the Mathematics Research Center, the University of Wisconsin ;
no. 29. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front Cover; Population Dynamics; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1. Population Waves; Introduction; Natural periodicity in the demographic system; Time to convergence; Trend in generational stability; Friction in the cohort effect; Extrapolation by far-sighted administrators amplifies the waves; Two levels of students and teachers; Mobility in unstable populations; The Easterlin effect; Age-specific rates that vary with the scarcity of the age; Population increase and retirement pensions; Conclusions; REFERENCES
- Chapter 2. Some Properties of a Stochastic Attraction Model1. Introduction; 2. Mathematical Development; 3. Example: Equidistant States; 4. Limiting Behavior of the Model; 5. Social Distance; REFERENCES; Chapter 3. The Sampling Frame as a Determinant of Observed Distributions of Duration Variables; 1. Introduction; 2. Birth Intervals; 3. Estimators of the density function of Xi, a; 4. Computer Simulation of Prospective and Interior Birth Interval Lengths; 5. Discussion; REFERENCES; Chapter 4. Comparison of Alternative Marriage Models; Two important previous results
- Previous studiesAvoiding a contradiction; Potential fertility of users; Length of protection; Discussion; REFERENCES; Chapter 7. On Estimating the Risk of Conception from Censored Data; 1. Introduction; 2. Distributions of Conception Times; 3. Previous Work on Indices; 4. Maximum Likelihood Estimators of Heterogeneous Fecundability from Censored Data (Assumption III); 5. Simulation Experiments; 6. Summary and Discussion; Appendix; Acknowledgements; REFERENCES; Chapter 8. Influence of Cause of Death Structure on Age-Patterns of Mortality; Nature of the Data Base; Procedures
- Reducing the Number of CausesFOOTNOTES; Chapter 9. Inhomogeneous Semi-Markov Processes, Select Actuarial Tables, and Duration-Dependence in Demography; 0. Summary; 1. Introduction; 2. Examples from Demography and Actuarial Science; 3. Aspects of the Theory of Homogeneous Semi-Markov Processes; 4. Rudiments of a Theory of Inhomogeneous Semi-Markov Processes. I. Basic Notions; 5. Rudiments II. Operational Time; 6. Rudiments III. Purged and Partial Processes. The Importance of the Observational Plan; REFERENCES