Statistical Demography
Spring quarter, 2020
Taught by professor Adrian E. Raftery, PhD
Statistical demography deals with methods for estimating and forecasting population, fertility, mortality and migration. This course covers:
- Review of basic demographic methods
- Modeling age-specific rates, including model schedules and Lee-Carter method
- Statistical modeling and projection of fertility, mortality, migration and population
- Reconstructing population and vital rates from imperfect data.
- Data science for demography.