Discretizing and validating Keyfitz'entropy for any demographic classification

S Giaimo - Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Keyfitz's entropy originally is a shape measure of senescence for continuous‐time models.
But a later formula of Keyfitz's entropy for discrete time also exists. de Vries et al.(2023) …

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C Bernard, C de Vries, OR Jones… - Methods in Ecology …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
In recent years, demographers have parsed variation in survivorship into two distinct
components: the shape and the pace of ageing. The pace of ageing is defined by measures …

[HTML][HTML] Deriving life history traits from an MPM

The aim of this vignette is to provide further details on the functions in Rage for estimating
life history traits and on the traits themselves. Life history describes the sequence and …