Mathematical demography
Subtitle: selected papers
By: [editors], David Smith, Nathan Keyfitz
Contributors: Wachter, Kenneth W., editor; Le Bras, Hervé, 1943- editor
Edition: Second, rev. edition / edited by Kenneth W. Wachter and Hervé Le Bras.
Series: Demographic research monographs : a series of the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research; Demographic research monographs
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Berlin; Heidelberg
Language: eng
Number of pages: 335
ISBN-13: 9783642358579
Subjects: Demography; Mathematical models
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-332) and index.
Table of contents: title: pt. I. The life table; title: pt. II. Stable population theory; title: pt. III. Attempts at prediction and the theory they stimulated; title: pt. IV. Parameterization and curve fitting; title: pt. V. Probability models of conception and birth.