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Sensitivity Analysis: Matrix Methods in Demography and Ecology

by Hal Caswell

Sensitivity Analysis: Matrix Methods in Demography and Ecology

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This book shows how to use sensitivity analysis in demography. It presents new methods for individuals, cohorts, and populations, with applications to humans, other animals, and plants. The analyses are based on matrix formulations of age-classified, stage-classified, and multistate population models. Methods are presented for linear and nonlinear, deterministic and stochastic, and time-invariant and time-varying cases. Readers will discover results on the sensitivity of statistics of longevity, life disparity, occupancy times, the net reproductive rate, and statistics of Markov chain models in demography. They will also see applications of sensitivity analysis to population growth rates, stable population structures, reproductive value, equilibria under immigration and nonlinearity, and population cycles. Individual stochasticity is a theme throughout, with a focus that goes beyond expected values to include variances in demographic outcomes.The calculations are easily and accurately implemented in matrix-oriented programming languages such as Matlab or R. Sensitivity analysis will help readers create models to predict the effect of future changes, to evaluate policy effects, and to identify possible evolutionary responses to the environment.Complete with many examples of the application, the book will be of interest to researchers and graduate students in human demography and population biology. The material will also appeal to those in mathematical biology and applied mathematics.

This open book is licensed under a Creative Commons License (CC BY). You can download Sensitivity Analysis: Matrix Methods in Demography and Ecology ebook for free in PDF format (4.8 MB).

Book Details

Title
Sensitivity Analysis: Matrix Methods in Demography and Ecology
Subject
Sociology and Social Sciences
Publisher
Springer
Published
2019
Pages
308
Edition
1
Language
English
ISBN13
9783030105334
ISBN10
3030105334
ISBN13 Digital
9783030105341
ISBN10 Digital
3030105342
PDF Size
4.8 MB
License
CC BY

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