Model-Based Demography: Essays on Integrating Data, Technique and Theory
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English
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978-3-319-65433-1
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Frontmatter
1. A Model-Based View of Demography
1. Demography in a New Key: A Theory of Population Theory
2. Data, Models, Theory and Reality: The Structure of Demographic Knowledge
3. Computer Modeling of Theory: Explanation for the Twenty-First Century
4. Computer Simulation and Statistical Modeling: Rivals or Complements?
5. Does Demography Need Differential Equations?
2. Some Demographic Models Re-visited
6. Theory, Computers and the Parameterization of Demographic Behavior
7. Estimating the Goodman, Keyfitz and Pullum Kinship Equations: An Alternative Procedure
8. The Life Table as a Theoretical Model
9. Cohort Component Projection: Algorithm, Technique, Model and Theory
10. The Cohort-Component Population Projection: A Strange Attractor for Demographers
3. Teaching Demography
11. Teaching Demography: Ten Principles and Two Rationales
12. Teaching the Fundamentals of Demography: A Model-Based Approach to Fertility
13. On Teaching Demography: Some Non-traditional Guidelines
4. Conclusion
14. Concluding Thoughts
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