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Smith, David Paul was born on September 26, 1944 in Detroit, Michigan, United States. Son of Philip Ray and Hazel Colleen (Strong) Smith.
(Mathematical demography is the centerpiece of quantitativ...)
Mathematical demography is the centerpiece of quantitative social science. The founding works of this field from Roman times to the late Twentieth Century are collected here, in a new edition of a classic work by David R. Smith and Nathan Keyfitz. Commentaries by Smith and Keyfitz have been brought up to date and extended by Kenneth Wachter and Hervé Le Bras, giving a synoptic picture of the leading achievements in formal population studies. Like the original collection, this new edition constitutes an indispensable source for students and scientists alike, and illustrates the deep roots and continuing vitality of mathematical demography.
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(Mathematical demography is the centerpiece of quantitativ...)
Mathematical demography is the centerpiece of quantitative social science. The founding works of this field from Roman times to the late Twentieth Century are collected here, in a new edition of a classic work by David R. Smith and Nathan Keyfitz. Commentaries by Smith and Keyfitz have been brought up to date and extended by Kenneth Wachter and Hervé Le Bras, giving a synoptic picture of the leading achievements in formal population studies. Like the original collection, this new edition constitutes an indispensable source for students and scientists alike, and illustrates the deep roots and continuing vitality of mathematical demography.
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(This book is intended as a relatively nontechnica1 introd...)
This book is intended as a relatively nontechnica1 introduction to eurrent demographie methods. It has been several years in preparation, beginning from occasional class handouts I wrote to elaborate on essential points of demographie methodology. Its growth from scattered notes to an integrated text was a natural process, if a gradual one. The eontent of the book addresses three objectives. first, I have tried to avoid demographie methods that are now dated. In some ehapters, that has meant eoncentrating on formulas most demographers recognize. In the ehap ters on life tables, it meant testing competing formulas on a variety of real and synthetie data se.ts, and dropping or relegating to footnotes those that were least accurate. Second, I have attempted to give readers a sense of the limits of different formulas and methods. I am a terse writer, however, and for the reader that means most sentences carry weight. Chapters should be read attentively, with careful regard to commentary as weIl as to formulas and examples. Finally, I have tried to make the principal methodologies of the book accessible, by offering explanations for formulas that are not obvious, by keeping examples to the forefront, and by placing relatively specialized topics in ehapter appendices.
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Smith, David Paul was born on September 26, 1944 in Detroit, Michigan, United States. Son of Philip Ray and Hazel Colleen (Strong) Smith.
Bachelor, University of California, Berkeley, 1966; Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard University, 1979.
Evaluation consultant, Population Council New York, 1969-1971; analysis division, World Fertility Survey (International Statistical Institute), London, 1979-1981; associate professor, University Texas School Public Health, Houston, since 1981. Director Texas Teen Pregnancy Evaluator's Network, Houston, since 1989.
(This book is intended as a relatively nontechnica1 introd...)
(Mathematical demography is the centerpiece of quantitativ...)
(Mathematical demography is the centerpiece of quantitativ...)
Member, board directors Planned Parenthood Houston and S.E. Texas, 1988-1991. Chair, health professional advising committee March of Dimes, Houston, since 1990. Member International Union Scientific Study of Population, Population Assn.Am.
Married Joan Mae Smith, February 14, 1978 (divorced December 1988). Children: Kenneth Clair, Russell Lawrence.