This article is the latest in the Health Affairs Forefront series, Accountable Care for Population Health, featuring analysis and discussion of how to understand, design, support, and measure ...

Structured population models integrate the inherent heterogeneity of populations by characterising individuals through distinct traits such as age, size, or physiological state. These models have ...

We develop a Bayesian capture—recapture model that provides estimates of abundance as well as time-varying and heterogeneous survival and capture probability distributions. The model uses a ...

Antoni Margalida, José Jiménez, José M. Martínez, José A. Sesé, Diego García-Ferré, Alfonso Llamas, Martine Razin, MªÀngels Colomer and Beatriz Arroyo Conventional approaches for the assessment of ...

One of the greatest challenges in saving endangered species is to predict if an animal population will die out. Accurate and reliable models are crucial for conservationists. What does the blue whale ...

Microsimulation is a modeling technique that uses a sample size of individual units (microunits), each with a unique set of attributes, and allows for the simulation of downstream events on the basis ...

Crowds of people on a beach in Brighton, England. Globally, fertility rates are decreasing at significant rates, leading to a prediction of peak global population in a little over 4 decades. The ...

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