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Carey’s Equality pertaining to stationary models is well known. In this paper, we have stated and proved a fundamental theorem related to the formation of this Equality. This theorem will provide an in-depth understanding of the role of each captive subject, and their corresponding follow-up duration in a stationary population. We have demonstrated a numerical example of a captive cohort and the survival pattern of medfly populations. These results can be adopted to understand age-structure and aging process in stationary and non-stationary population models.
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We thank the organizers of the Keyfitz Centennial Symposium on Mathematical Demography sponsored by the Mathematical Biosciences Institute, Ohio State University, June 2013. Research by JRC supported by NIA/NIH Grants P01 AG022500-01 and P01 AG08761-10.
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Srinivasa Rao, A.S.R., Carey, J.R. Generalization of Carey’s equality and a theorem on stationary population. J. Math. Biol. 71, 583–594 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00285-014-0831-6
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