Age × stage-classified demographic analysis: a comprehensive approach.

ABSTRACT: This paper presents a comprehensive theory for the demographic analysis of populations in which individuals are classified by both age and stage. The earliest demographic models were age classified. Ecologists adopted methods developed by human demographers and used life tables to quantify survivorship and fertility of cohorts and the growth rates and structures of populations. Later, motivated by studies of plants and insects, matrix population models structured by size or stage were developed. The theory of these models has been extended to cover all the aspects of age-classified demography and more. It is a natural development to consider populations classified by both age and stage. A steady trickle of results has appeared since the 1960s, analyzing one or another aspect of age × stage

SUBMITTER: Caswell H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6283253 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature