Markov mortality models: Implications of quasistationarity and varying initial distributions

Theoretical Population Biology

Volumn 65, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 319-337

  Steinsaltz, David ^a   Evans, Steven N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGICAL THEORY; MODELING; MORTALITY;

ARTICLE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MORTALITY; PROBABILITY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

DATA COLLECTION; HUMANS; MARKOV CHAINS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MORTALITY;

EID: 2442581375     PISSN: 00405809     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tpb.2003.10.007     Document Type: Article

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