Burch, Thomas K.
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
- Author(s)
- Burch, Thomas K.
- Publisher
- Springer
- Publication year
- 2018
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Series
- Demographic Research Monographs
- Page amount
- 18 pages
- Category
- Society
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9783319654331
- Printed ISBN
- 978-3-319-65432-4