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Hello,
A population grows exponentially.
is the flow of births at time t, where p(t, x) is the proportion of those born t-x years ago and still alive at age x and m(t, x) is the proportion of those reproducing at age x at time t.
It follows:
(1)
is an age-specific change in the risk of dying.According to the author "using the appropriate chain rule" it follows from (1) that:
What is the "appropriate chain rule" the author is talking about? Unfortunately, I only know one chain rule. Could someone show me an intermediate step, please?
Thanks in advance and best regards,
Sebastian
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It means you to apply the Leibniz Rule for differentiation under the integral sign. Do you know what is it?
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