TY - BOOK AU - Vajda, Steven TI - Mathematics of manpower planning SN - 471996270 AV - HF 5549.5 .V35 1978 PY - 1978/// CY - Chichester, England PB - Wiley KW - BUSINESS N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; 1. The cohort -- 2. The constant population -- 3. The stationary population -- 4. The semi-stationary population -- 5. Changing population totals -- 6. Introduction, lemma -- 7. Attainable structures -- 8. Re-attainable structures -- 9. Partially re-attainable structures -- 10. Stable populations -- 11. Optimization -- 12. Choice of transition rates N2 - The origins of this book go back to the middle 1940s, when the author was Statistician in the Admiralty, and to work done in the middle 1970s, when he was a Senior Research Fellow in the University of Sussex. The earlier work is described, with the necessary background, and with extensive additions, in Part I, while the later work is contained - again with extensions - in Part II ER -