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- Expert commentaries tie together founding contributions with present-day research
- The unique source giving access to classic works in mathematical demography
- Wide appeal for students and researchers across the social sciences
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Demographic Research Monographs (DEMOGRAPHIC)
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Table of contents (35 chapters)
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Probability Models of Conception and Birth
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“This revised edition collates papers on mathematical demography that date back from Roman times to the late twentieth century. … This collection is a piece of history and is comprised of crucial source material equally for researchers, graduate students and practitioners. … Those looking to study mathematics and science related fields would greatly benefit from reading this text.” (S. E. Ahmed, Technometrics, Vol. 57 (1), February, 2015)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Mathematical Demography
Book Subtitle: Selected Papers
Authors: David P. Smith, Nathan Keyfitz
Editors: Kenneth W. Wachter, Hervé Le Bras
Series Title: Demographic Research Monographs
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35858-6
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-642-35857-9Published: 12 August 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-44045-8Published: 08 August 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-35858-6Published: 23 July 2013
Series ISSN: 1613-5520
Series E-ISSN: 2197-9286
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: XXIII, 335
Topics: Demography, Game Theory, Economics, Social and Behav. Sciences, Population Economics, History of Science, Statistics for Social Sciences, Humanities, Law