Rate Distribution Modeling for Structured Heterogeneous Populations

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We propose a modeling strategy for structured populations, in which individuals are not necessarily identical. The heterogeneity is obtained by modeling the population as comprising homogeneous subpopulations. By using a vector measure, we combine the subpopulations with an abstract integral to obtain the density of the population. We show that this approach leads to a semigroup formulation of the dynamics in a space of vector measures, and we develop some estimation methods for determining the initial structure from observed data.

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