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 This open access volume contains a selection of resulting papers, some previously unpublished, some published but not readily access...
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,
2018.
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| Loạt: | Demographic Research Monographs, A Series of the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research,
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| Truy cập trực tuyến: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65433-1 |
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Mục lục:
- 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.