The third edition of this classic text maintains its focus on
applications of demographic models, while extending its scope to
matrix models for stage-classified populations. The authors first
introduce the life table to describe age-specific mortality, and
then use it to develop theory for stable populations and the rate
of population increase. This theory is then revisited in the
context of matrix models, for stage-classified as well as
age-classified populations. Reproductive value and the stable
equivalent population are introduced in both contexts, and Markov
chain methods are presented to describe the movement of individuals
through the life cycle. Applications of mathematical demography to
population projection and forecasting, kinship, microdemography,
heterogeneity, and multi-state models are considered.
The new edition maintains and extends the book's focus on the
consequences of changes in the vital rates. Methods are presented
for calculating the sensitivity and elasticity of population growth
rate, life expectancy, stable stage distribution, and reproductive
value, and for applying those results in comparative studies.
Stage-classified models are important in both human demography
and population ecology, and this edition features examples from
both human and non-human populations. In short, this third edition
enlarges considerably the scope and power of demography. It will be
an essential resource for students and researchers in demography
and in animal and plant population ecology.
From the reviews:
"If you found the original editions...to be excellent (and who
amoung us has not?) then you will find the new edition to be
equally so...This book is highly andunreservedly recommended for
any beginning mathematical demographer." Mathematical Population
Studies, 12: 223-228, 2005
"The material in the second edition is retained, although the
chapters are reorganized and references are updated. New chapters
focusing on matrix population models are seamlessly interwoven with
the second edition chapters, resulting in a thorough and
comprehensive treatment of human, animal, and nonhuman demography."
Journal of the American Statistical Association, December 2005
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