Parameter Estimation for Age-Structured Population Dynamics

  • Cho, Chung-Ki (Department of Mathematics Pohang University of Science and Technology) ;
  • Kwon, YongHoon (Department of Mathematics Pohang University of Science and Technology)
  • Published : 1997.12.31

Abstract

This paper studies parameter estimation for a first-order hyperbolic integro-differential equation modelling one-sex population dynamics. A second-order finite difference scheme is used to estimate parameters such as the age-specific death-rate and the age-specific fertility from fully discrete observations on the population. The function space parameter estimation convergence of this scheme is proved. Also, numerical simulations are performed.

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Acknowledgement

Supported by : Ministry of Education, Graduate School for Environmental Science and Technology