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  • Cohort Change Ratios and their Applications

    by Lucky M. Tedrow, Jack Baker, Jeff Tayman, David A. Swanson ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This textbook focuses on the cohort change ratio (CCR) method. It presents powerful, yet relatively simple ways to generate accurate demographic estimates and forecasts that are cost efficient and require fewer resources than other techniques. The concepts, analytical frameworks, and methodological tools presented do not require extensive knowledge of demographics, mathematics, or statistics.The ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • A Practitioner's Guide to State and Local Population Projections

    by Stanley K. Smith, Jeff Tayman, David A. Swanson ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book focuses on the methodology and analysis of state and local population projections. It describes the most commonly used data sources and application techniques for four types of projection methods: cohort-component, trend extrapolation, structural models, and microsimulation. It covers the components of population growth, sources of data, the formation of assumptions, the development of ... Read more

    $116.09 USD

  • Subnational Population Estimates

    by David A. Swanson, Jeff Tayman ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Providing a unified and comprehensive treatment of the theory and techniques of sub-national population estimation, this much-needed publication does more than collate disparate source material. It examines hitherto unexplored methodological links between differing types of estimation from both the demographic and sample-survey traditions and is a self-contained primer that combines academic rigor ... Read more

    $170.09 USD

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  • Population Reconstruction

    Edited by Gerrit Bloothooft, Peter Christen, Kees Mandemakers, Marijn Schraagen ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book addresses the problems that are encountered, and solutions that have been proposed, when we aim to identify people and to reconstruct populations under conditions where information is scarce, ambiguous, fuzzy and sometimes erroneous.The process from handwritten registers to a reconstructed digitized population consists of three major phases, reflected in the three main sections of this ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Concepts, Methods and Practical Applications in Applied Demography

    An Introductory Textbook

    by Richard K. Thomas ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This textbook offers a comprehensive overview of applied demography by presenting both basic concepts and methodological techniques. It allows students from the social and human sciences, demographers, consultants and anyone interested in applied demography to gain an understanding of a wide range of practical applications of demographic concepts, methods and techniques to real- world problems. ... Read more

    $58.49 USD

  • Advanced Techniques for Modelling Maternal and Child Health in Africa

    Edited by Ngianga-Bakwin Kandala, Gebrenegus Ghilagaber ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book presents both theoretical contributions and empirical applications of advanced statistical techniques including geo-additive models that link individual measures with area variables to account for spatial correlation; multilevel models that address the issue of clustering within family and household; multi-process models that account for interdependencies over life-course events and non ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Estimating Characteristics of the Foreign-Born by Legal Status

    An Evaluation of Data and Methods

    by Dean H. Judson, David A. Swanson ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This brief represents a comprehensive review of methods for estimating characteristics of the foreign-born population in the United States, specifically oriented toward characteristics by legal status. A variety of methods have been proffered over the past many decades, in a large variety of venues; this work brings them together, attempts to impart some order on the definition of “legal status,” ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Working with the American Community Survey in R

    A Guide to Using the acs Package

    by Ezra Haber Glenn ...
    Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
    This book serves as a hands-on guide to the "acs" R package for demographers, planners, and other researchers who work with American Community Survey (ACS) data. It gathers the most common problems associated with using ACS data and implements functions as a package in the R statistical programming language. The package defines a new "acs" class object (containing estimates, standard errors, and ... Read more

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  • Emerging Techniques in Applied Demography

    Edited by Lloyd B. Potter, M.Nazrul Hoque ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    By bringing together top-notch demographers, sociologists, economists, statisticians and public health specialists from Asia, Africa, Europe, and North America to examine a wide variety of public and private issues in applied demography, this book spans a wide range of topics. It evaluates population estimates and projections against actual census counts and suggests further improvement of ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Topics on Methodological and Applied Statistical Inference

    Edited by Tonio Di Battista, Elías Moreno, Walter Racugno ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    This book brings together selected peer-reviewed contributions from various research fields in statistics, and highlights the diverse approaches and analyses related to real-life phenomena.Major topics covered in this volume include, but are not limited to, bayesian inference, likelihood approach, pseudo-likelihoods, regression, time series, and data analysis as well as applications in the life ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Topics in Theoretical and Applied Statistics

    Edited by Giorgio Alleva, Andrea Giommi ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    This book highlights the latest research findings from the 46th International Meeting of the Italian Statistical Society (SIS) in Rome, during which both methodological and applied statistical research was discussed. This selection of fully peer-reviewed papers, originally presented at the meeting, addresses a broad range of topics, including the theory of statistical inference; data mining and ... Read more

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  • Generation Me - Revised and Updated

    Why Today's Young Americans Are More Confident, Assertive, Entitled--and More Miserable Than Ever Before

    by Jean M. Twenge, PhD ...
    The Associated Press calls them "The Entitlement Generation," and they are storming into schools, colleges, and businesses all over the country. They are today's young people, a new generation with sky-high expectations and a need for constant praise and fulfillment. In this provocative new book, headline-making psychologist and social commentator Dr. Jean Twenge documents the self-focus of what ... Read more

    $13.99 USD