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What do Bayesian methods offer population forecasters?

, 2010
The Bayesian approach has a number of attractive properties for probabilistic forecasting. In this paper, we apply Bayesian time series models to obtain future population estimates with uncertainty for England and Wales.
Abel, Guy J., Bijak, Jakub, Forster, Jonathan J., Raymer, James, Smith, Peter W.F.   +4 more
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Ethical Development and Diversity Training for Educational Leaders [PDF]

, 2018
In the 21st century schools must meet the challenges of current and anticipated increases in racial and ethnic student populations. In turn, school principals must be prepared to lead diverse student populations to high levels of achievement.
Flumerfelt, Shannon, Ingram, Ilene L.
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A Comparison of Rule-based and Supervised Machine Learning Approaches for Record Linkage of Italian Historical Data

Historical Life Course Studies
Parish and civil records are crucial sources for reconstructing historical socio-demographic processes. However, their analysis presents significant challenges, particularly the need to digitize data and link life events across documents that lack ...
Saverio Minardi, Suzanne Greco, Nicola Barban   +2 more
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A Study in Historical Demography

Japanese Sociological Review, 1982
Since the late 1960s the economic historians of Japan have reported various case studies of historical demography that are based on the analyses of the shumon aratame cho (Books of Investigation of Beliefs). This particular field of research was first pioneered by a French demographer, Luois Henry, in the 1950s. Since then it has been widely adopted by
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The Use of Historical Census Data for Mortality and Fertility Research [PDF]

This paper illustrates the application of indirect techniques of fertility and mortality estimation to historical census data, both in published form and as micro census samples derived from the original enumerators' manuscripts. There are many instances
Michael R. Haines
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“Missing Girls” Problem in European Historical Demography: Analysing the Latest Historiography

Известия Уральского федерального университета. Серия 2: Гуманитарные науки
This article examines the issue of “missing girls”, which refers to the disproportionately high mortality rate among female infants and children due to gender discrimination, which has been highlighted in recent historical and demographic studies of the ...
Alexandr Vladimirovich Bobitsky, Elena Mikhailovna Glavatskaya   +1 more
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Rojo-Pérez, F. & Fernández-Mayoralas, G. (Eds.). (2021). Handbook of Active Ageing and Quality of Life. From Concepts to Applications. Cham, Switzerland: Springer International Publishing. International Handbooks of Quality-of-Life book series.

Estudios Geográficos, 2021
Diego Ramiro-Fariñas
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Current trends in global demographic processes [PDF]

, 2018
Current local and national demographic trends have deepened the existing and formed new global demographic processes that have received a new historical reasoning that requires deep scientific research taking into account the ...
S. Sardak, M. Korneyev, V. Dzhyndzhoian, T. Fedotova, O. Tryfonova, Sardak, Sergii   +1 more
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A multistate demographic model for firms in the province of Gelderland [PDF]

In the last two decades researchers from various disciplines have made attempts to model and estimate developments in the size and structure of the population of firms.
Corina Huisman, Leo Van Wissen
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A Personal Account of the History of Historical Demography in Europe at the End of the Glorious Thirty (1967-1975)

Essays in Economic and Business History, 2017
Encouraged by her masters at the Annales School—historians Fernand Braudel and Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, demographer Louis Henry from Institut National d’Etudes Démographiques (INED), and sociologist Peter Laslett from Cambridge—the author, a baby-boomer,
Antoinette Fauve-Chamoux
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