DemogR: A package for the construction and analysis of age-structured demographic models in R

Journal of Statistical Software

Volumn 22, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1-28

  Jones, James Holland ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Demography; Human ecology; Life history theory; Matrix population models; Model life tables; R

Indexed keywords

EID: 37649013405     PISSN: 15487660     EISSN: 15487660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.18637/jss.v022.i10     Document Type: Article

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