Abstract
The “forward problem” in structured-population modeling is to work from observations and assumptions about the birth, death, and developmental rates of individuals within a population to predict population dynamics: how numbers of individuals within the population change through time. This is a well-behaved and respectable type of problem in that it is properly posed: the inputs to a model (information about births, deaths, and development) completely specify the outputs (population dynamics).
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Wood, S.N. (1997). Inverse Problems and Structured-Population Dynamics. In: Tuljapurkar, S., Caswell, H. (eds) Structured-Population Models in Marine, Terrestrial, and Freshwater Systems. Population and Community Biology Series, vol 18. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-5973-3_19
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