This book focuses on the official regional population projections of Japan and examines its methodologies and results, written in English, by Japanese pioneers in this field for readers who are non-Japanese. In 2018, the National Institute of Popu...Loe edasi...
This comprehensive book covers a wide variety of methods for estimating the sizes and related parameters of closed populations. With the effect of climate change, and human territory invasion, we have seen huge species losses and a major biodivers...Loe edasi...
Capture-recapture methods have been used in biology and ecology for more than 100 years. However, it is only recently that these methods have become popular in the social and medical sciences to estimate the size of elusive populations such as ill...Loe edasi...
Population genetics is an inherently quantitative discipline, yet often focuses upon abstract concepts which can be difficult to conceptualize and appropriately visualize at first glance. This book focuses on applying the hugely popular R software sp...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 25-Feb-2021, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198829539)
Population genetics is an inherently quantitative discipline, yet often focuses upon abstract concepts which can be difficult to conceptualize and appropriately visualize at first glance. This book focuses on applying the hugely popular R software sp...Loe edasi...
Over the past decade, several initiatives have been launched to address the major health problems affecting the worlds poorest countries, including global efforts to combat HIV/AIDS, TB and malaria. More recently, a millennial challenge has been lai...Loe edasi...
Demographic estimation and forecasting is an important practical problem. Population projections are used to guide billions of dollars of expenditure on things such as roads, housing, shopping complexes, and hospitals. Policy evaluations...Loe edasi...
Leonard A. Brennan, Andrew N. Tri, Bruce G. Marcot
Sari: Wildlife Management and Conservation
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Nov-2019, Hardback, Kirjastus: Johns Hopkins University Press, ISBN-13: 9781421431079)
Over the past fifty years, wildlife science has become increasingly quantitative. But to wildlife scientists, many of whom have not been formally trained as biometricians, computer modelers, or mathematicians, the wide array of available technique...Loe edasi...
What we count matters - and in a world where policies and decisions are underpinned by numbers, statistics and data, if you’re not counted, you don’t count. Alex Cobham argues that systematic gaps in economic and demogra...Loe edasi...
Author Alex Cobham is head of the Tax Justice Network and a member the Poverty and Inequality Commission of Scotland. In this book, he points to the lack of economic and demographic data on disadvantaged populations such as indigenous people, wom...Loe edasi...
The United States census provides researchers, students, and the public with some of the richest and broadest information available about the American people. Exploring the U.S. Census by Frank Donnelly ...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 19-Nov-2019, Hardback, Kirjastus: Harvard University Press, ISBN-13: 9780674975613)
Warren Sanderson and Sergei Scherbov argue for a new way to measure individual and population aging. Instead of counting how many years we’ve lived, we should think about our “prospective age”—the number of years we expect to have left. Their pioneer...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 18-Jun-2019, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: United Nations, ISBN-13: 9789211171570)
This publication contains a series of good practices and recommendations on effectively communicating the results of population projections....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 17-Apr-2019, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: United Nations, ISBN-13: 9789211171853)
The economic, social and demographic impacts of migration are large and increasing. Policymakers, researchers and other stakeholders need data on migrants and their integration into societies. These data need be comprehensive, accurate and frequently...Loe edasi...
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Health and Medicine Division, Board on Health Care Services, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, Committee on National Statistics, Jordyn White, Nancy K
The increasing diversity of population of the United States presents many challenges to conducting health research that is representative and informative. Dispersion and accessibility issues can increase logistical costs; populations for which it is...Loe edasi...
Demographic estimation and forecasting is an important practical problem. Population projections are used to guide billions of dollars of expenditure on things such as roads, housing, shopping complexes, and hospitals. Policy evaluations...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 08-Jan-2018, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Stata Press, ISBN-13: 9781597182607)
Survey Weights: A Step-by-Step Guide to Calculation is the first guide geared toward Stata users that systematically covers the major steps taken in creating survey weights. These weights are used to project a sample to some larger populatio...Loe edasi...
Capture-recapture methods are techniques used to estimate the size of populations that cannot be easily counted. Examples are homeless populations, illegal immigrants, illegal drug users, drivers driving without a license, domestic violence cases,...Loe edasi...
This edited collection investigates what progress has been made in the field of social demography in South Africa since the democratic dispensation in the country. Contributors offer a compilation of in-depth analytical studies of substantive, tec...Loe edasi...
This edited collection investigates what progress has been made in the field of social demography in South Africa since the democratic dispensation in the country. Contributors offer a compilation of in-depth analytical studies of substantive, techn...Loe edasi...
