Author: Larry L. LuceroPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Urban transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
Towards Improved Demographic Groupings in Disaggregate Behavioral Modelling
Author: Larry L. LuceroPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Urban transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
Agent-Based Computational Demography
Author: Francesco C. BillariPublisher: Physica
ISBN: 9783790827163
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Agent-Based Computational Demography (ABCD) aims at starting a new stream of research among social scientists whose interests lie in understanding demographic behaviour. The book takes a micro-demographic (agent-based) perspective and illustrates the potentialities of computer simulation as an aid in theory building. The chapters of the book, written by leading experts either in demography or in agent-based modelling, address several key questions. Why do we need agent-based computational demography? How can ABCD be applied to the study of migrations, family demography, and historical demography? What are the peculiarities of agent-based models as applied to the demography of human populations? ABCD is of interest to all scientists interested in studying demographic behaviour, as well as to computer scientists and modellers who are looking for a promising field of application.
Modeling Multigroup Populations
Author: Robert SchoenPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9780306426490
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
This book deals with models that can capture the behavior of individuals and groups over time. Organizationally, it is divided into three parts. Part I discusses the basic, decrement-only, life table and its associated stable population. Part II examines multistate (or increment-decrement) models and provides the first comprehensive treatment of those extremely flexible and useful life table models. Part III looks at "two-sex" models, which simultaneously incorporate the marriage or fertility behavior of males and females. Those models are explored more fully and completely here than has been the case to date, and the importance of including the experience of both sexes is demonstrated analytically as weil as empirically. In sum, this book considers a broad range of population models with a view to showing that such models can be eminently calculable, clearly interpretable, and analytically valuable for the study of many kinds of social behavior. Four appendixes have been added to make the book more usable. Appendix A provides abrief introduction to calculus and matrix algebra so that readers can understand, though not necessarily derive, the equations presented. Appendix B provides an index of the principal symbols used. Appendix C gives the answers to the exercises found at the end of each chapter. Those exercises should be seen as an extension of the text, and are intended to inform as weil as to challenge.
Behavioural Travel Modelling
Author: David A. HensherPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000362973
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 872
Book Description
Originally published in 1979, this study deals on a fully comprehensive level with both passenger and freight travel. The 40 chapters deal with an extensive range of related topics, including equilibrium modelling, theoretical and conceptual developments in demand modelling, goods movement and forecasting and policy. It outlines approaches to understanding travel behaviour, which move beyond the individual choice theory towards a broader consideration of activities.
Passenger Travel Forecasting
Author: National Research Council (U.S.). Transportation Research BoardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Special Report
Author: National Research Council (U.S.). Highway Research BoardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Highway engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 784
Book Description
Survey of Air Cargo Forecasting Techniques
Author: A. R. KuhlthanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aeronautics, Commercial
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Special Report - Highway Research Board
Author: National Research Council (U.S.). Highway Research BoardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Highway research
Languages : en
Pages : 768
Book Description
Model-Based Demography
Author: Thomas K. BurchPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 9783319880273
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
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. When viewed from the perspective of modern philosophy of science, specifically the semantic or model-based school, demography is a balanced discipline, with a rich body of techniques and data, but also with more and better theories than generally recognized. As demonstrated in this book, some demographic techniques can also be seen as theoretical models, and some substantive/behavioral models, commonly rejected as theory because of inconsistent observations, are now seen as valuable theoretical models, for example demographic transition theory. This book shows how demography can build a strong theoretical edifice on its broad and deep empirical foundation by adoption of the model-based approach to science. But the full-fruits of this approach will require demographers to make greater use of computer modeling in the statement and manipulation of theoretical ideas, as well as for numerical computation.
Model-Based Demography
Author: Thomas K BurchPublisher:
ISBN: 9781013269677
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
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. When viewed from the perspective of modern philosophy of science, specifically the semantic or model-based school, demography is a balanced discipline, with a rich body of techniques and data, but also with more and better theories than generally recognized. As demonstrated in this book, some demographic techniques can also be seen as theoretical models, and some substantive/behavioral models, commonly rejected as theory because of inconsistent observations, are now seen as valuable theoretical models, for example demographic transition theory. This book shows how demography can build a strong theoretical edifice on its broad and deep empirical foundation by adoption of the model-based approach to science. But the full-fruits of this approach will require demographers to make greater use of computer modeling in the statement and manipulation of theoretical ideas, as well as for numerical computation. This work was published by Saint Philip Street Press pursuant to a Creative Commons license permitting commercial use. All rights not granted by the work's license are retained by the author or authors.