βThis will be a bible for demographers in coming years and decades.β --Professor James Vaupel, Founding Director, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock βIt is really a graduate-level textbook of formal demography. As such, is needed. I will certainly use it as my basic textbook whe
Demography: Measuring and Modeling Population Processes
β Scribed by Samuel H. Preston, Patrick Heuveline, Michel Guillot
- Publisher
- Wiley-Blackwell
- Year
- 2001
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 306
- Category
- Library
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