Model-Based Demography Essays on Integrating Data, Technique and Theory /

 Late in a career of more than sixty years, Thomas Burch, an internationally known social demographer, undertook a wide-ranging methodological critique of demography. This open access volume contains  a selection of resulting papers, some previously unpublished, some published but not readily access...

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التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
المؤلف الرئيسي: Burch, Thomas K. (مؤلف)
مؤلف مشترك: SpringerLink (Online service)
التنسيق: الكتروني كتاب الكتروني
اللغة:الإنجليزية
منشور في: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
سلاسل:Demographic Research Monographs, A Series of the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research,
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الوصول للمادة أونلاين:http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65433-1
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جدول المحتويات:
  • Part I: A Model-Based View of Demography: 1. Demography in a New Key: A Theory of Population Theory
  •  2. Data, Models and Reality: The Structure of Demographic Knowledge
  • 3. Computer Modeling of Theory: Explanation for the 21st Century
  • 4. Computer Simulation and Statistical Modeling: Rivals or Complements?
  • 5. Does Demography Need Differential Equations?  Part II: Some Demographic Models Re-visited: 6. Theory, Computers and the Parametrization of Demographic Behavior
  • 7. Estimating the Goodman, Keyfitz, Pullum Kinship Equations: An Alternative Procedure
  • 8. The Life Table as a Theoretical Model
  •  9. The Cohort-Component Projection Algorithm: Technique, Model and Theory
  • 10. The Cohort-Component Projection Model: A Strange Attractor for Demographers Part III: Teaching Demography: 11. Teaching Demography: Ten Principles and Two Rationales
  • 12. Teaching the Fundamentals of Demography: A Model-Based Approach to Family and Fertility,- 13. On Teaching Demography : Some Non-Traditional Guidelines
  • Part IV: Conclusion:14 Conclusion
  • Index.