Demography: Measuring and Modeling Population Processes

Preston, Samuel

ISBN 10: 1557864519 / ISBN 13: 9781557864512

Published by Wiley-Blackwell, 2000

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Demography: Measuring and Modeling Population Processes
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1557864519
• ISBN 13: 9781557864512
• Binding: paperback
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: Good

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Synopsis

This book presents and develops the basic methods and models that are used by demographers to study the behaviour of human populations. The procedures are clearly and concisely developed from first principles and extensive applications are presented.

About the Author

Samuel H. Preston is Frederick J. Warren Professor of Demography and Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania. He has written monographs on mortality patterns, world urbanization, the history of child health, and other subjects. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Philosophical Society.

Patrick Heuveline is Assistant Professor of Sociology and Research Associate of the Population Research Center at the University of Chicago. His recent work applies demographic analysis to such diverse topics as the Cambodian genocide and the HIV/AIDS pandemic.

Michel Guillot is a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, where his research focuses on formal demography and mortality in developing countries. He has a Ph.D. in Demography and Sociology from the University of Pennsylvania.