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Formal Demography (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1992)
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Formal Demography (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1992)
Series: The Springer Series on Demographic Methods and Population Analysis
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This book is intended as a relatively nontechnica1 introduction to
eurrent demographie methods. It has been several years in
preparation, beginning from occasional class handouts I wrote to
elaborate on essential points of demographie methodology. Its
growth from scattered notes to an integrated text was a natural
process, if a gradual one. The eontent of the book addresses three
objectives. first, I have tried to avoid demographie methods that
are now dated. In some ehapters, that has meant eoncentrating on
formulas most demographers recognize. In the ehap ters on life
tables, it meant testing competing formulas on a variety of real
and synthetie data se.ts, and dropping or relegating to footnotes
those that were least accurate. Second, I have attempted to give
readers a sense of the limits of different formulas and methods. I
am a terse writer, however, and for the reader that means most
sentences carry weight. Chapters should be read attentively, with
careful regard to commentary as weIl as to formulas and examples.
Finally, I have tried to make the principal methodologies of the
book accessible, by offering explanations for formulas that are not
obvious, by keeping examples to the forefront, and by placing
relatively specialized topics in ehapter appendices.
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