Screen LibraryMathematical demography : selected papers /
Mathematical demography is the centerpiece of quantitative social science. The founding works of this field from Roman times to the late Twentieth Century are collected here, in a new edition of a classic work by David R. Smith and Nathan Keyfitz. Commentaries by Smith and Keyfitz have been brought...
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Springer,
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| Publisher Address: | Berlin : |
| Publication Dates: | 2013. |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | Second, revised edition. |
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Demographic research monographs
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| Online Access: |
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35858-6 |
| Summary: |
Mathematical demography is the centerpiece of quantitative social science. The founding works of this field from Roman times to the late Twentieth Century are collected here, in a new edition of a classic work by David R. Smith and Nathan Keyfitz. Commentaries by Smith and Keyfitz have been brought up to date and extended by Kenneth Wachter and Herv Le Bras, giving a synoptic picture of the leading achievements in formal population studies. Like the original collection, this new edition constitutes an indispensable source for students and scientists alike, and illustrates the deep roots and continuing vitality of mathematical demography. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (xxiii, 335 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and idnex. |
| ISBN: |
9783642358586 (electronic bk.) 3642358586 (electronic bk.) |
| Index Number: | HB849 |
| CLC: | C921 |
| Contents: |
The Life Table -- Tables of Annuity Values Which Were Sanctioned by the Roman Law for the Purposes of the Lex Falcidia -- Natural and Political Observations Mentioned in a Following Index, and Made Upon the Bills of Mortality -- An Estimate of the Degrees of the Mortality of Mankind -- A Treatise on the Valuation of Annuities and Assurances on Lives and Survivors -- Statistical Applications of the Mortality Table -- Formal Treatment of Aggregate Mortality Data -- A Short Method for Constructing an Abridged Life Table -- Short Methods of Constructing Abridged Life Tables -- Life Tables for Natural Populations of Animals -- Stable Population Theory -- An Illustration of Population Growth -- A General Investigation into the Mortality and Multiplication of the Human Species -- Relation Between Birth Rates and Death Rates -- A Problem in Age-Distribution -- The Stability of the Normal Age Distribution -- Resolving a Historical Confusion in Population Analysis -- On the Integral Equation of Renewal Theory -- A New Method for Calculating Lotka's r -- The Intrinsic Rate of Growth in a Stable Population -- The Fundamental Theorem of Natural Selection -- How the Age Distribution of a Human Population is Determined -- On the Reproduction of Organisms with Overlapping Generations -- The Population Consequences of Life History Phenomena -- Attempts at Prediction and the Theory They Stimulated -- The Probability of a Cessation of the Growth of Population in England and Wales during the Next Century -- Population Waves -- On the Use of Matrices in Certain Population Mathematics -- Parameterization and Curve Fitting -- On the Nature of the Function Expressive of the Law of Human Mortality -- On the Law of Mortality -- Calculation of Model Tables -- Methods of Analysis and Estimation -- Nuptiality, Fertility, and Reproductivity -- Model Fertility Tables: Variations in the Age Structure of Childbearing in Human Populations -- A Note on the Law of Population Growth -- On the Rate of Growth of the Population of the United States since 1790 and its Mathematical Representation -- Probability Models of Conception and Birth -- First Investigations on the Fecundability of a Woman -- Theoretical Basis of Measures of Natural Fertility -- On the Time Required for Conception. |