Model-Based Demography: Essays on Integrating Data, Technique and Theory

by Thomas K. Burch

Book Overview

Late in a career of more than sixty years, Thomas Burch, an internationally known social demographer, undertook a wide-ranging methodological critique of demography. This open access volume contains a selection of resulting papers, some previously unpublished, some published but not readily accessible. Rejecting the idea that demography is simply a branch of applied statistics, his work views it as an autonomous and complete scientific discipline...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1013269667
• ISBN13: 9781013269660
• Release Date: October 2020
• Publisher: Saint Philip Street Press
• Length: 204 Pages
• Weight: 1.07 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.5" x 11.0"