Mathematical theories of populations have appeared both implicitly and explicitly in many important studies of populations, human populations as well as populations of animals, cells and viruses. They provide a systematic way for studying a population's underlying structure.
In this book, a basic model in population age structure is studied and then applied, extended and modified, to several population phenomena such as stable age distributions, self-limiting effects, and two-sex populations. Population genetics are studied with special attention to derivation and analysis of a model for a one-locus, two-allele trait in a large randomly mating population. The dynamics of contagious phenomena in a population are studied in the context of epidemic diseases.
| ISBN: | 9780898710175 |
| Publication date: | 28th February 1987 |
| Author: | F C Hoppensteadt |
| Publisher: | Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics an imprint of SIAM - Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 72 pages |
| Series: | CBMS-NSF Regional Conference Series in Applied Mathematics |
| Genres: |
Applied mathematics |