The models of this paper attempt to account for the age, sex, and marital status distributions of human populations. A marriage market develops around preferences for mates of different ages, and we study this market as changes in age distributions change the availability of mates. Unless we know how to relate marriages to the exposed population, we cannot even calculate rates that will tell us...

The models of this paper attempt to account for the age, sex, and marital status distributions of human populations. A marriage market develops around preferences for mates of different ages, and we study this market as changes in age distributions change the availability of mates. Unless we know how to relate marriages to the exposed population, we cannot even calculate rates that will tell us...

Recent work suggests that Cournot oligopolists competing in a spatial model, with a uniform distribution of consumers, agglomerate in the center of the market. In this paper we analyze the robustness of this result with a general symmetric distribution of consumers and show that if the population density is "too thin" at the center of the market, then Cournot competition does not yield spatial ...

The attached study was discussed in the NRC 2006 review, but was criticized because the osteosarcoma rates of Kenyan provinces were not age-­‐adjusted. However, Kenyan provinces had large populations and it is unlikely there were large differences in ag distribution between provinces. Furthermore, the differences in osteosarcoma rates between provinces were as large as 400%. It is unlikely age ...

I review weighted distribution theory and applications in observational studies where biased data arise. Recorded observations will be biased and not have the original distribution unless every observation is given an equal chance of being recorded. G. P. Patil and C. R. Rao in 1977 wrote “Although the situations that involve weighted distributions seem to occur frequently in various fields, th...