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 This open access volume contains a selection of resulting papers, some previously unpublished, some published but not readily accessi...

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1. Verfasser: Burch, Thomas K. (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Cham : Springer International Publishing, 2018.
Ausgabe:1st ed. 2018.
Schriftenreihe:Demographic Research Monographs, A Series of the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research,
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ISBN:9783319654331
ISSN:1613-5520
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505 0 |a 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. 
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