What demographers can learn from fruit fly actuarial models and biology

Demography

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 17-30

  Carey, James R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ANIMAL; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOLOGY; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; FLY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; LIFE TABLE; LONGEVITY; MALE; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MORTALITY; REVIEW; SEX RATIO; STATISTICAL MODEL;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ANIMALS; DEMOGRAPHY; DIPTERA; ECOLOGY; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIFE TABLES; LONGEVITY; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MORTALITY; SEX DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 0031068837     PISSN: 00703370     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2061657     Document Type: Article

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