Derivatives of the stochastic growth rate

Theoretical Population Biology

Volumn 80, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-15

  Steinsaltz, David ^a   Tuljapurkar, Shripad ^b   Horvitz, Carol ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c University of Miami   (United States)

Author keywords

Demographic elasticity; Lyapunov exponent; Stage structured population; Stochastic growth rate; Stochastic matrix models

Indexed keywords

DEMOGRAPHY; ERROR ANALYSIS; GROWTH RATE; MARKOV CHAIN; POPULATION STRUCTURE; STOCHASTICITY;

ARTICLE; DEMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION GROWTH; PROBABILITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

DEMOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MARKOV CHAINS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION GROWTH; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 79959376947     PISSN: 00405809     EISSN: 10960325     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tpb.2011.03.004     Document Type: Article

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