title: Sampling properties of the asymptotic behavior of age- or stage-grouped population models.
abstract: The discrete-time linear recurrent models proposed by Leslie in 1945 and Usher in 1966 for age-or stage-grouped populations are discussed with emphasis on the random nature, due to sampling variations, of their well-known asymptotic behavior. The statistical properties of the estimated asymptotic multiplication rate, stage, or age stable structures and mean generation time are inspected by both a theoretical approach and a simulation procedure. Illustrative case studies provide some order of magnitudes of the sampling bias and variance of these statistics.
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Houllier
authors.forename: J D
authors.initials: JD
authors.lastname: Lebreton
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Pontier
mesh_terms: D000367:Age Factors; D000818:Animals; D008433:Mathematics; D008954:Models, Biological; D011157:Population Dynamics; D012098:Reproduction