Exploring Jewish life and customs, this book offers Christians insights into shared roots and traditions, fostering understanding and appreciation. It provides a comprehensive overview of the fundamental aspects of Judaism, highlighting the significance of various practices and beliefs. The approach is respectful and informative, aiming to bridge cultural gaps and enhance mutual respect between faiths.
Focusing on population behavior, this book is structured into three parts: the first covers basic life tables and stable populations; the second offers a comprehensive exploration of multistate models; and the third delves into "two-sex" models, emphasizing the importance of incorporating both male and female behaviors. The text is designed to be calculable and interpretable, enhancing the study of social behavior. Four appendixes provide essential tools, including calculus and matrix algebra introductions, a symbol index, and exercise answers to deepen understanding.
Focusing on dynamic modeling, this book synthesizes the emerging field of population models with changing vital rates. It covers key topics such as population growth under fertility declines, the effects of event timing on fertility measures, and the interplay between period and cohort measures. Additionally, it explores new models for analyzing changing mortality and extends Lotka's fixed rate stable population model, providing a comprehensive resource for understanding these complex dynamics in population studies.
This volume presents state of the art analyses from scholars dealing with a range of demographic topics of current concern, including longevity, mortality and morbidity, migration, and how population composition impacts intergenerational transfer schemes. New approaches are applied to such issues as measuring changes in cohort survivorship in low mortality populations, patterns of mortality improvement at older ages, and the consequences of heterogeneity in the susceptibility to death. Studies examine models of the current status of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, advance present methods for estimating population change in small areas, and strive to disentangle age, period, and cohort effects. In sum, the book addresses key contemporary issues in measuring and modeling dynamic populations, and advances the frontier of dynamic demography.