Ergodicity of age structure in populations with Markovian vital rates, III: Finite-state moments and growth rate; an illustration

DOI10.2307/1426109zbMath0376.60074OpenAlexW2318424189MaRDI QIDQ4153423

Joel E. Cohen

Publication date: 1977

Published in: Advances in Applied Probability (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2307/1426109

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Population dynamics (general) (92D25) Applications of Markov chains and discrete-time Markov processes on general state spaces (social mobility, learning theory, industrial processes, etc.) (60J20) Positive matrices and their generalizations; cones of matrices (15B48) Probability measures on groups or semigroups, Fourier transforms, factorization (60B15)

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