Gender-structured Population Modeling: Mathematical Methods, Numerics, and Simulations (Frontiers in Applied Mathematics, Series Number 31) - Softcover

M. Ianelli; M. Martcheva; F.A. Milner

 
9780898715774: Gender-structured Population Modeling: Mathematical Methods, Numerics, and Simulations (Frontiers in Applied Mathematics, Series Number 31)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0898715776 ISBN 13: 9780898715774
Publisher: SIAM: Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, 2005

Synopsis

Gender-Structured Population Modeling: Mathematical Methods, Numerics, and Simulations gives a unified presentation of, and mathematical framework for, modeling population growth by couple formation. It provides an overview of both past and present modeling results. The book provides results on model analysis, gives an up-to-date review of mathematical demography, discusses numerical methods, and puts deterministic modeling of human populations into historical perspective. The authors describe several models and derive the theoretical results that demonstrate the validity of these models. The numerical methods for approximating the solutions of the differential models - the equivalent of creating discrete simulators - are delineated. Simulation results are compared with actual demographic data to show some of the difficulties concerning the availability of data and to show that mathematical demography provides reasonable qualitative and quantitative estimates. The models in this book can be applied to different sets of data.

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About the Author

M. Iannelli is a Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Trento.M. Martcheva is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Florida.F. A. Milner is a Professor in the Department of Mathematics at Purdue University.

From the Inside Flap

This book is an excellent reference for demographers as well as graduate students and mathematicians interested in population dynamics, and is a great source for further research on the subject.

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Publisher
SIAM: Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
Publication date
2005
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0898715776
ISBN 13 
9780898715774
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
184