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Stage-Structured Populations - Sampling, analysis and simulation (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1990)
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Stage-Structured Populations - Sampling, analysis and simulation (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1990)
Series: Molecular Biology Intelligence Unit
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This book provides a review of methods for obtaining and analysing
data from stage-structured biological populations. The topics
covered are sam pling designs (Chapter 2), the estimation of
parameters by maximum likelihood (Chapter 3), the analysis of
sample counts of the numbers cif individuals in different stages at
different times (Chapters 4 and 5), the analysis of data using
Leslie matrix types of model (Chapter 6) and key factor analysis
(Chapter 7). There is also some discussion of the approaches to
modelling and estimation that have been used in five studies of
particular populations (Chapter 8). There is a large literature on
the modelling of biological populations, and a multitude of
different approaches have been used in this area. The various
approaches can be classified in different ways (Southwood, 1978,
ch. 12), but for the purposes of this book it is convenient to
think of the three categories mathematical, statistical and
predictive modelling. Mathematical modelling is concerned largely
with developing models that capture the most important qualitative
features of population dynamics. In this case, the models that are
developed do not have to be compared with data from natural
populations. As representations of idealized systems, they can be
quite informative in showing the effects of changing parameters,
indicating what factors are most important in promoting stability,
and so on."
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