Pullum T W, Wolf D A
Population Research Center, University of Texas, Austin 78712.
Demography. 1991 Aug;28(3):391-409.
Recent years have seen the development of formal and microsimulation models of the structure and dynamics of kin networks. These models generally assume uncorrelated fertility within and across generations. Several sets of real data, however, show positive correlations between the frequencies of various categories of kin. This paper uses formal models to calculate the correlations that will exist between certain categories of kin even if mothers and daughters have independent fertility. Mechanisms by which fertility might be transmitted from mothers to their daughters are considered and the implications for kin correlations are evaluated.
近年来，亲属网络的结构和动态的形式化模型和微观模拟模型得到了发展。这些模型通常假设代内和代际间的生育是不相关的。然而，几组实际数据显示了各类亲属频率之间的正相关。本文使用形式化模型来计算即使母亲和女儿的生育是独立的情况下某些亲属类别之间将会存在的相关性。我们考虑了生育可能从母亲传递给女儿的机制，并评估了其对亲属相关性的影响。
