Description: Further DetailsTitle: Essential Demographic MethodsCondition: NewEAN: 9780674045576ISBN: 9780674045576Publisher: Harvard University PressFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 06/23/2014Item Height: 235mmItem Length: 156mmAuthor: Kenneth W. WachterLanguage: EnglishISBN-10: 0674045572Description: Essential Demographic Methods brings to readers the full range of ideas and skills of demographic analysis that lie at the core of social sciences and public health. Classroom tested over many years, filled with fresh data and examples, this approachable text is tailored to the needs of beginners, advanced students, and researchers alike. An award-winning teacher and eminent demographer, Kenneth Wachter uses themes from the individual lifecourse, history, and global change to convey the meaning of concepts such as exponential growth, cohorts and periods, lifetables, population projection, proportional hazards, parity, marity, migration flows, and stable populations. The presentation is carefully paced and accessible to readers with knowledge of high-school algebra. Each chapter contains original problem sets and worked examples.From the most basic concepts and measures to developments in spatial demography and hazard modeling at the research frontier, Essential Demographic Methods brings out the wider appeal of demography in its connections across the sciences and humanities. It is a lively, compact guide for understanding quantitative population analysis in the social and biological world.Country/Region of Manufacture: USGenre: Society & CultureTopic: Social SciencesRelease Year: 2014 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Essential Demographic Methods
Title: Essential Demographic Methods
EAN: 9780674045576
ISBN: 9780674045576
Release Date: 06/23/2014
Release Year: 2014
ISBN-10: 0674045572
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Society & Culture
Topic: Social Sciences
Number of Pages: 312 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Essential Demographic Methods
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Subject: Demography
Publication Year: 2014
Item Height: 1.1 in
Item Weight: 20 Oz
Type: Textbook
Author: Kenneth W. Wachter
Subject Area: Social Science
Item Length: 9.2 in
Item Width: 6.1 in
Format: Hardcover