title: Raising Leslie matrices to powers: a method and applications to demography.
abstract: An illustrative method, labelled Strip and Mask, to raise a Leslie matrix to powers is introduced. Starting from a recent article in this journal, the Strip and Mask method is utilized to determine the primitivity pattern of a Leslie matrix, and to discuss some properties of the corresponding population model.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D003710:Demography; D006801:Humans; D008433:Mathematics; D008954:Models, Biological; D011157:Population Dynamics