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AMBUSH: A Computer Program for Stochastic Microsimulation of Small Human Populations
Author(s) -
Howell Nancy,
Lehotay Victor A.
Publication year - 1978
Publication title -
american anthropologist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.51
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1548-1433
pISSN - 0002-7294
DOI - 10.1525/aa.1978.80.4.02a00080
Subject(s) - kinship , microsimulation , fertility , demography , genealogy , computer science , sociology , population , history , engineering , anthropology , transport engineering
A new generation of computer simulation programs for exploring problems in demography, kinship ties, descent groups, and other kinds of connectivity in small human populations is now available for use. AMBUSH is a simulation package which may be useful for simulating effects of fertility and mortality schedules, rules of marriage and kinship, density‐dependent infanticide, and other features of closed breeding groups, and their stochastic variability. The program, described here, is available from the authors . [microsimulation, demography, kinship, connectivity]