Ergodic theorems indemography

Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 1979, Pages 275-295

  Cohen, Joel E ^a  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Age census; Age structure; Contractive mappings; Demography; Ergodic sets; Ergodic theorems; Hilbert projective pseudometric; Leslie matrix; Markov chains; Nonnegative matrices; Periodic environments; Perron Frobenius theorem; Population projection; Products of random matrices; Random environments; Random ergodic theorems; Stable populations; Uniform mixing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84966230219     PISSN: 02730979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1090/S0273-0979-1979-14594-4     Document Type: Article

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