ISBN:
9780691186054
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (477 pages)
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DDC:
574.52480000000003
Keywords:
Population biology
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Population biology
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Cover -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Perspective -- Organization of the book -- Editorial strategies -- Data selection -- Tabulation and visualization -- Concepts and models -- Epistemological -- Human Demography in Tree of Life Context -- Human biology shaped mainstream demography -- Demographic characteristics -- Databases -- Acknowledgments -- Permissions -- Introduction -- Historical Perspectives on Biodemography -- Biology and demography -- Early developments -- Traction -- Coalescence -- Classical Demography -- Usefulness of Demography -- Conceptual unification -- Projection and prediction -- Control, conservation, and exploitation -- Demographic Abstractions -- Age -- Process -- Flow -- Chapter 1: Demography Basics -- Basic Formalization -- Demographic levels and traits -- Age and the life course -- Types of data -- Population Characteristics -- Population size -- Population distribution -- Population structure -- Population change (size) -- Population change (space) -- Basic Demographic Data -- Exploratory data analysis and summarization -- Visual inspection of raw data -- Standard deviation -- Histograms -- Box plots -- Lorenz curves and Gini coefficients -- Lexis diagrams -- Concept -- Lexis diagram: Example applications -- Demographic time: Extensions beyond age-period-cohort -- Variants of age-period-cohort (APC) -- Variants of thantological age-period-death cohort (TPD) -- Variants of thantological age-chronological age-life span (TAL) -- Variants of life span-chronological age-death year (LCD) -- Cohort Concepts -- Ratios, Proportions, and Rates -- Chapter 2: Life Tables -- The Basic Life Table -- Life table radix -- Life table rate functions -- Construction of cohort life table -- Parameter visualization -- Life table censoring -- Period life tables -- Background -- Construction -- Primacy of life expectancy.
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