Demographic Parameters and Natural Selection

DOI10.1073/PNAS.71.12.4645zbMATH Open0303.62075OpenAlexW1994282263WikidataQ35118328 ScholiaQ35118328MaRDI QIDQ4057985FDOQ4057985

Authors: Lloyd Demetrius 

Publication date: 1974

Published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.71.12.4645

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of statistics to actuarial sciences and financial mathematics (62P05) Genetics and epigenetics (92D10)

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• The rate of convergence of a generalized stable population
• Keyfitz entropy: investigating some mathematical properties and its application for estimating survival function in life table
• Statistical mechanics and population biology
• Mortality implications of mortality plateaus
• Growth rate, population entropy, and perturbation theory
• Trait level analysis of multitrait population projection matrices
• Periodic matrix population models: growth rate, basic reproduction number, and entropy
• Darwinian fitness and the intensity of natural selection: studies in sensitivity analysis
• Leslie matrix models
• Complexity and demographic stability in population models
• Ergodic theorems in demography
• Mixing times towards demographic equilibrium in insect populations with temperature variable age structures
• Hierarchically organized populations: Interactions between individual, population, and ecosystem levels
• Directionality theory and the second law of thermodynamics
• Life not lived due to disequilibrium in heterogeneous age-structured populations
• Is mortality or interest rate the most important risk in annuity models? A comparison of sensitivity analysis methods
• Stationary mutant distributions and evolutionary optimization
• Growth rate, evolutionary entropy and ageing across the tree of life
• The entropy of the life table: a reappraisal
• Why use population entropy? It determines the rate of convergence
• Populations with constant immigration
• Mortality Change and Forecasting
• Drivers of diversity in individual life courses: sensitivity of the population entropy of a Markov chain
• Entropy and convergence in dynamics and demography
• Boltzmann, Darwin and directionality theory
• The genealogical decomposition of a matrix population model with applications to the aggregation of stages
• Game theory and evolution: Finite size and absolute fitness measures
• Population dynamics in variable environments. I. Long-run growth rates and extinction
• Darwinian fitness
• Evolutionary entropy: a predictor of body size, metabolic rate and maximal life span
• Changes in mortality and life expectancy: Some methodological issues

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