1 option
Mathematical theories of populations : demographics, genetics, and epidemics / Frank Hoppensteadt.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hoppensteadt, Frank C. (Frank Charles), 1938-
- Series:
- CBMS-NSF regional conference series in applied mathematics ; 20.
- CBMS-NSF regional conference series in applied mathematics ; 20
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Population--Mathematical models.
- Population.
- Population genetics.
- Epidemics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 electronic text (ix, 72 p.) : ill., digital file.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia, Pa. : Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM, 3600 Market Street, Floor 6, Philadelphia, PA 19104), 1975.
- Language Note:
- English
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader.
- Summary:
- 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. 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.
- Contents:
- The equations of population dynamics: age dependent population growth
- Analysis of the birth rate
- A model of a self-limiting population
- A two-sex model
- Deterministic models in genetics: a brief introduction to Mendelian genetics
- The one-locus, two-allele model
- Age dependent population genetics
- Propagation of a gene in a spatially distributed population
- Theories of epidemics: general theory of contagious phenomena
- Qualitative behavior of deterministic epidemics.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Title from title screen, viewed 04/05/2011.
- ISBN:
- 1-61197-048-2
- Publisher Number:
- CB20 SIAM
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.