Model-based demography : essays on integrating data, technique and theory / Thomas K. Burch.
Burch, Thomas K., author.
2018
HB848-3697QA276-280B
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Title
Model-based demography : essays on integrating data, technique and theory / Thomas K. Burch.
Author
Burch, Thomas K., author.
ISBN
9783319654331 (electronic book)
3319654330 (electronic book)
9783319654324
3319654322
Published
Cham : Springer Verlag, [2018 i.e. 2017]
Copyright
©2018
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xviii, 200 pages)
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HB848-3697QA276-280B
Dewey Decimal Classification
304.6
Summary
"The papers in this collection? most of them previously published? are the fruits of an intellectual odyssey over the last decades of my career as a sociologist/demographer. Beginning in the late 1980s, longstanding questions about the status of demography as a science came to the surface, and I began to pursue them actively. Looking back, I realize that at some point I became less a demographer and more a demography critic? cf. art critic or music critic? and an amateur philosopher of science. My central concern has been with the role and status of theory in demography"--Preface.
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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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