Leslie Stabbed in Excel

Yes, and am super excited. Never been so happy after a Kill.

Ok, so Leslie is the heart of my research. Lesli (1945) came up with the application of Matrix Models in ecology by applying it to Predict and model population dynamics of different species. It was targeted to answer questions like...

1. How many baccha's are born to a female in a group of say baboons !!!
2. How many year will it take these baboons to go extinct after say 5 adult female baboon's die?

...the list can go on ...to model and predict all sorts of mating and dating questions in any species or populations, including plants. All one had to do was count the no. of sexy females, and age-sex the sub-adults. Yah, males have no role in the population models predictions, since how long a population will survive or will go extinct entire depends on the number of fertile female...(yeee, cheer's for feminist readers of mine...)

Ok, so 20 years later, Lefkovoitch (1965) came up with another model having more general information on the growing stage of an individual rather than exact age, since its always difficult to accurately identify the age of individuals in wilderness. Since then it has been used extensively in all sorts of Population modeling.

Now am not dealing with any plant or animal...but a large landscape that I want to view through the MATRIX. Population Ecologist primarily use Matlab for this kind of work.

Now, I am anti-programing freak...I JUST run away at the sight or the thought of having to use any software which would need some programing or simulations. Me not a programing person at all..., specially Matlab or R...they just remind me of my ENG' friends... noooo.......!!!!!

But anyway since my passion lies in Matrix I had to get to it some day or other. BUT, before I initiate the next phase of my life with Matt and R , I wanted to get a grasp on the mathematics of matrix manipulation required for my work in our good old, simple, easy MS EXCEL.....

And guess what I got it. Yes! After seeing some simple results in excel I can't imagine how my results and model will look when I can add more dimensions to it!

Now that i have an idea on what I can see if I get a grasp on R and MAT, am motivated to go for the next kill....Can't wait...

And obviously couldn't wait not BLOGGING !!!!! Cheer's also to one and ONLY one...who should not be named for not being there, and still being there

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Lefkovitch, L. P. 1965. The study of population growth in organisms grouped by stages. Biometrics 21:1-18.

Leslie, P H. 1945 On the Use of Matrices in Certain Population Mathematics. Biometrika 33:183-212.