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The basic population equation (4.1.1) is linear and this linearity ought to be of some use. This chapter shows that for both the I.I.D. and the (finite) Markov models, the linearity allows us to compute moments of the population vector.
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Tuljapurkar, S. (1990). Moments of the Population Vector. In: Population Dynamics in Variable Environments. Lecture Notes in Biomathematics, vol 85. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-51652-8_7
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