Model-Based Demography

Part I. A Model-Based View of Demography

1. Demography in a New Key: A Theory of Population Theory
Thomas K. Burch

2. Data, Models, Theory and Reality: The Structure of Demographic Knowledge
Thomas K. Burch

3. Computer Modeling of Theory: Explanation for the Twenty-First Century
Thomas K. Burch

4. Computer Simulation and Statistical Modeling: Rivals or Complements?
Thomas K. Burch

5. Does Demography Need Differential Equations?

Thomas K. Burch

Part II. Some Demographic Models Re-visited

6. Theory, Computers and the Parameterization of Demographic Behavior
Thomas K. Burch

7. Estimating the Goodman, Keyfitz and Pullum Kinship Equations: An Alternative Procedure
Thomas K. Burch

8. The Life Table as a Theoretical Model
Thomas K. Burch

9. Cohort Component Projection: Algorithm, Technique, Model and Theory
Thomas K. Burch

10. The Cohort-Component Population Projection: A Strange Attractor for Demographers
Thomas K. Burch

Part III. Teaching Demography

11. Teaching Demography: Ten Principles and Two Rationales
Thomas K. Burch

12. Teaching the Fundamentals of Demography: A Model-Based Approach to Fertility
Thomas K. Burch

13. On Teaching Demography: Some Non-traditional Guidelines
Thomas K. Burch

Part IV. Conclusion

14. Concluding Thoughts
Thomas K. Burch

Keywords: Social Sciences, Demography, Statistics for Social Science, Behavorial Science, Education, Public Policy, and Law, Philosophy of Science, Methodology of the Social Sciences