Modeling Multigroup Populations - Brossura

Schoen, Robert

 
9781489920577: Modeling Multigroup Populations

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This book deals with models that can capture the behavior of individuals and groups over time. Organizationally, it is divided into three parts. Part I discusses the basic, decrement-only, life table and its associated stable population. Part II examines multistate (or increment-decrement) models and provides the first comprehensive treatment of those extremely flexible and useful life table models. Part III looks at "two-sex" models, which simultaneously incorporate the marriage or fertility behavior of males and females. Those models are explored more fully and completely here than has been the case to date, and the importance of including the experience of both sexes is demonstrated analytically as weil as empirically. In sum, this book considers a broad range of population models with a view to showing that such models can be eminently calculable, clearly interpretable, and analytically valuable for the study of many kinds of social behavior. Four appendixes have been added to make the book more usable. Appendix A provides abrief introduction to calculus and matrix algebra so that readers can understand, though not necessarily derive, the equations presented. Appendix B provides an index of the principal symbols used. Appendix C gives the answers to the exercises found at the end of each chapter. Those exercises should be seen as an extension of the text, and are intended to inform as weil as to challenge.

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Contenuti

Life Tables and Stable Populations.- The Basic Life Table.- Life Tables with Multiple Decrements.- The Stable Population.- Multistate Population Models.- The Multistate Life Table.- The Multistate Stable Population.- Two-Sex Population Models.- The Interaction between the Sexes.- Two-Sex Marriage Models.- The Marriage Squeeze.- Two-Sex Fertility Models.- Models of Interacting Populations.

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9780306426490: Modeling Multigroup Populations

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ISBN 10:  0306426498 ISBN 13:  9780306426490
Casa editrice: Springer-Verlag GmbH, 1987
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