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Section I Analysis of Stage-Frequency Data.- A Review of Methods for the Analysis of Stage-frequency Data.- Life Tables, Parasitism: Estimating Parameters in Joint Host-Parasitoid Systems.- From Cohort Data to Life Table Parameters via Stochastic Modeling.- Estimation of Stage-Specific Demographic Parameters for Zooplankton Populations: Methods Based on Stage-Classified Matrix Projection Models.- Compartmental Models in the Analysis of Populations.- Modeling Grasshopper Phenology with Diffusion Processes.- Estimation of Relative Trappabilities by Age and Development Delays of Released Blowflies.- A Stochastic Model for Insect Life History Data.- Nonparametric Estimation of Insect Stage Transition Times.- Problems Associated with Life Cycle Studies of a Soil-Inhabiting Organism.- Section II Modeling of Population Dynamics.- A Review of Methods for Key Factor Analysis.- Are Natural Enemy Populations Chaotic?.- Demographic Framework for Analysis of Insect Life Histories.- Stochastic Differential Equations as Insect Population Models.- Intensive Study and Comparison of Single Species Population Simulation Models.- Potential Use of an Engineering-Based Computer Simulation Language (SLAM) for Modeling Insect Systems.- Modeling Southern Pine Beetle (Coleoptera: Scolytidae) Population Dynamics: Methods, Results and Impending Challenges.- Application of Catastrophe Theory to Population Dynamics of Rangeland Grasshoppers.- Derivation and Analysis of Composite Models for Insect Populations.- Leslie Matrix Models for Insect Populations with Overlapping Generations.- Relationships Among Recent Models for Insect Population Dynamics with Variable Rates of Development.- Models of Development in Insect Populations.- Section III Analysis of Spatial Data.- A Significance Test for Morisita’s Index of Dispersion and the Moments when the Population is Negative Binomial and Poisson.- Spatial Analysis of the Relationship of Grasshopper Outbreaks to Soil Classification.- Use of Multi-Dimensional Life Tables for Studying Insect Population Dynamics.- Measures of the Dispersion of a Population Based on Ranks.- A Model of Arthropod Movement within Agroecosystems.- Section IV General Sampling, Estimation Methods.- Intervention Analysis in Multivariate Time Series via the Kalman Filter.- Estimating the Size of Gypsy Moth Populations using Ratios.- Numerical Survival Rate Estimation for Capture-recapture Models using SAS PROC NLIN.- Sampling Forest Canopy Arthropods Available to Birds as Prey.- Design Based Sampling as a Technique for Estimating Arthropod Population in Cotton over Large Land Masses.- DISCRETE, a Computer Program for Fitting Discrete Frequency Distributions.- Calibration of Biased Sampling Procedures.- Arthropod Sampling Methods in Ornithology: Goals and Pitfalls.