Lotka and stable population theory (1907–1911)

Nicolas Bacaër ()
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Chapter Chapter 10 in A Short History of Mathematical Population Dynamics, 2011, pp 55-58 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract In 1907 the American chemist Alfred Lotka started to study the relation between birth rate, age-specific death rates and the rate of population growth using a continuous-time model. In 1911 he published another article on the same subject with F.R. Sharpe, which also included age-specific fertility rates. The implicit equation giving the population growth rate is often called “Lotka’s equation”.

Keywords: Implicit Equation; Life Insurance Company; Male Birth; Male Birth Rate; Metropolitan Life Insurance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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DOI: 10.1007/978-0-85729-115-8_10

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