Inverse Projection Techniques
Subtitle: Old and New Approaches (Demographic Research Monographs)
Contributors: Elisabetta Barbi (Editor); Salvatore Bertino (Editor); Eugenio Sonnino (Editor)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Springer
Published: May 14, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 137
ISBN-13: 9783540209317
Subjects: Population & demography; Economics - General; Business & Economics; Business / Economics / Finance; Business/Economics; Probability & Statistics - General; Aging - General; Business & Economics / Economics / General; Demographic Processes; Family & Relationships-Aging - General; Historical Demography; Inverse Projection; Mathematics-Probability & Statistics - General; Population Reconstruction; Projections; Stochastic Population Projections
First sentence: Some good ideas just don't work out in practice, while other ideas that seem to be based on very questionable assumptions, surprise us by working better than one could reasonably expect.