Nature

Structured Population Models and Measure-Valued Solutions

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 ...
Nature

Bifurcation Theory in Age-Structured Population Models

Bifurcation theory provides a mathematical framework for understanding qualitative changes in the dynamics of systems as parameters vary. In the context of age-structured population models, this ...
JSTOR Daily

Limitations of individual causal models, causal graphs, and ignorability assumptions, as illustrated by random confounding and design unfaithfulness

We describe how ordinary interpretations of causal models and causal graphs fail to capture important distinctions among ignorable allocation mechanisms for subject selection or allocation. We ...
Health Affairs

Using Advanced Payments In Population-Based Models To Address Equity

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 ...
JSTOR Daily

How large a managed area is needed to protect a threatened animal species? Combining simple dispersal and population models

The size and shape of the managed area for a threatened species to have a stable or growing population is a central issue for conservation management, for example for kiwi, Apteryx sp. Combining ...
The Conversation

Misinformation really does spread like a virus, suggest mathematical models drawn from epidemiology

Sander van der Linden has engaged in consultancy for and received research funding from Google, the EU Commission, United Nations (UN), World Health Organization (WHO), Alfred Landecker Foundation, ...