Le Bras Hervé and Artzrouni Marc. ? Interference, indifference and independence. Interference in demographic phenomena can be dealt with in two different ways, either by assuming the indifference of the two phenomena or by adopting the Markovian method of multiple decrement. An examination of...

Artzrouni Marc. ? A new family of growth curves : application to the demographic transition. The demographic transition is characterized by birth and death rates that decrease from one asymptotic value to the other. These rates can be approximated by "antilogistic" » functions, i.e. "a constant...