Author | Smith, David P. author |
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Title | Mathematical Demography [electronic resource] : Selected Papers / by David P. Smith, Nathan Keyfitz |
Imprint | Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 1977 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-81046-6 |
Descript | online resource |
The Life Table -- 1. Tables of Annuity Values Which Were Sanctioned by the Roman Law for the Purposes of the Lex Falcidia -- 2. Natural and Political Observations Mentioned in a Following Index, and Made Upon the Bills of Mortality -- 3. An Estimate of the Degrees of the Mortality of Mankind -- 4. A Treatise on the Valuation of Annuities and Assurances on Lives and Survivors -- 5. Statistical Applications of the Mortality Table -- 6. Formal Treatment of Aggregate Mortality Data -- 7. A Short Method for Constructing an Abridged Life Table -- 8. Short Methods of Constructing Abridged Life Tables -- 9. Life Tables for Natural Populations of Animals -- Stable Population Theory -- 10. An Illustration of Population Growth -- 11. A General Investigation into the Mortality and Multiplication of the Human Species -- 12. Relation Between Birth Rates and Death Rates -- 13. A Problem in Age-Distribution -- 14. The Stability of the Normal Age Distribution -- 15. Resolving a Historical Confusion in Population Analysis -- 16. On the Integral Equation of Renewal Theory -- 17. A New Method for Calculating Lotkaโs rโThe Intrinsic Rate of Growth in a Stable Population -- 18. The Fundamental Theorem of Natural Selection -- 19. How the Age Distribution of a Human Population is Determined -- 20. On the Reproduction of Organisms with Overlapping Generations -- 21. The Population Consequences of Life History Phenomena -- Attempts at Prediction and the Theory they Stimulated -- 22. The Probability of a Cessation of the Growth of Population in England and Wales during the Next Century -- 23. An Empirical Method for Calculating Future Population -- 24. Population Waves -- 25. On the Generation and Growth of a Population -- 26. On the Use of Matrices in Certain Population Mathematics -- 27. Matrix Representation of Changes in the Active Population -- 28. Weak Ergodicity -- 29. Ergodic Properties of Populations I: The One Sex Model -- Parameterization and Curve Fitting -- 30. On the Nature of the Function Expressive of the Law of Human Mortality -- 31. On the Law of Mortality -- 32. Calculation of Model Tables -- 33. Estimates of Fertility and Mortality Based on Reported Age Distributions and Reported Child Survival -- 34. Methods of Analysis and Estimation -- 35. Nuptiality, Fertility, and Reproductivity -- 36. Model Fertility Tables: Variations in the Age Structure of Childbearing in Human Populations -- 37. A Note on the Law of Population Growth -- 38. On the Rate of Growth of the Population of the United States since 1790 and its Mathematical Representation -- 39. The Measurement of Population Distribution -- Probability Models of Conception and Birth -- 40. First Investigations on the Fecundability of a Woman -- 41. Theoretical Basis of Measures of Natural Fertility -- 42. A Note on the Structure of a Stochastic Model -- 43. On the Time Required for Conception -- Branching Theory and Other Stochastic Processes -- 44. On the Probability of the Extinction of Families -- 45. Extinction Probabilities in Branching Processes -- 46. Stochastic Processes and Population Growth -- 47. An Age-Dependent Birth and Death Process -- 48. On the Use of the Direct Matrix Product in Analyzing Certain Stochastic Population Models -- Cohort and Period, Problem of the Sexes, Sampling -- 49. Aspects of Recent Trends in Marriage in England and Wales -- 50. The Relations between Male and Female Reproduction Rates -- 51. The Measurement of Reproductivity -- 52. Stochastic Processes and Population Growth -- 53. Population Growth of the Sexes -- 54. On Future Population -- 55. The Standard Deviation of Sampling for Life Expectancy -- 56. Probability Distributions of Life Table Functions -- References -- Author Index