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Population processes allowing emigration of families

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2016

Abebe Tessera*
Affiliation:
Addis Ababa University
*
Postal address: Department of Statistics, Addis Ababa University, P.O. Box 1176, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

Abstract

In the familiar immigration–birth–death process the events of immigration, birth and death relate to the individual. There are processes in which the whole family and not just an individual migrates. Such population growth models are studied in some detail.

Type
Research Papers
Copyright
Copyright © Applied Probability Trust 1984 

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