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Age-dependent branching processes and sampling frameworks for mortality and marital variables in nonstable populations
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Age-dependent branching processes and sampling frameworks for mortality and marital variables in nonstable populations

Charles J. Mode
Mathematical biosciences, v 30(1)
1976

Abstract

During recent years there has been increasing recognition of the problem of understanding sampling frameworks when attempts are being made to estimate various probability distributions from fertility survey data. It is widely recognized that survey data are “selected” in certain ways, depending on how the sample is defined, andthe need arises to somehow accomodate “selection” in estimation procedures. The purpose ofthis paper is, accordingly, to develop sampling frames for studying several mortality and marital variables within the framework of generalized age-dependent branching processes. By studying mortality and marital variables within the framework of branching processes, it is possible to remove the restriction, underlying the work of Sheps and Menken (1972), that the population must be in a stable or stationary state.

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