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It is shown that the dominant root and the associated stable vector of a convex mixture of Leslie matrices is approximately equal to the convex mixture of the dominant roots and their stable vectors of the component matrices.
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Krishnan, P., Lalu, N.M. (1983). Lotka Distribution for a Finite Mixture of Human Populations I. In: Freedman, H.I., Strobeck, C. (eds) Population Biology. Lecture Notes in Biomathematics, vol 52. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-87893-0_23
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