Demography

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Measuring and Modeling Population Processes

By Samuel Preston and Patrick Heuveline and Michel Guillot

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Demography presents and develops core methods and models used by demographers to analyse human populations. Starting from first principles, it clearly explains procedures and offers extensive practical applications, providing a comprehensive toolkit for demographic study.
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Ideal for advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and professionals in demography or population studies seeking a rigorous, formal approach to demographic methods and analysis.

This book presents and develops the basic methods and models that are used by demographers to study the behaviour of human populations. The procedures are clearly and concisely developed from first principles and extensive applications are presented.

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Professor James Vaupel calls it "a bible for demographers" for future decades. Professor Kenneth Hill praises it as a much-needed, interesting graduate-level formal demography textbook that he intends to use as a primary resource. Geographical Association notes it is well-crafted for advanced demographic analysis, suitable at the undergraduate level and reasonably priced. The book emphasises mathematical competence and covers key topics such as life tables, fertility, population projections, and stable population models.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781557864512

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 14 September 2000

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Wiley-Blackwell

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 24.0mm

Width: 173.0mm

Height: 246.0mm

Weight: 590g

Pages: 320

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Education & Reference Engineering, Technology & Agriculture History & Archaeology History & Military Michel Guillot Non-Fiction Patrick Heuveline Samuel Preston Science & Nature

About the Author

Samuel H. Preston is Frederick J. Warren Professor of Demography and Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania. He has written monographs on mortality patterns, world urbanization, the history of child health, and other subjects. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Philosophical Society.

Patrick Heuveline is Assistant Professor of Sociology and Research Associate of the Population Research Center at the University of Chicago. His recent work applies demographic analysis to such diverse topics as the Cambodian genocide and the HIV/AIDS pandemic.

Michel Guillot is a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, where his research focuses on formal demography and mortality in developing countries. He has a Ph.D. in Demography and Sociology from the University of Pennsylvania.