Multistate Analysis of Life Histories with R (Use R!)

Frans Willekens

$59.99

Publication Date: September 23rd, 2014

Publisher:

Springer

ISBN:

9783319083827

Pages:

308

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Description

Introduction.- Life Histories: Real and Synthetic.- The Biograph Object.- Exploratory Data Analysis.- Visualization of Event Histories and State Sequences.- Statistical Packages for Multistate Event History Analysis.- The Multistate Life Table.- Application to Netherlands Family and Fertility Survey.- Summary.- Annexes.

About the Author

Frans Willekens is affiliated with the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) in Rostock, Germany. He is Emeritus Professor of Demography at the University of Groningen, a Honorary Fellow of the Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI) in the Hague, and a Research Associate of the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg, Austria. He is a member of Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW). He has contributed to the modeling and simulation of life histories, mainly in the context of population forecasting.

Multistate Analysis of Life Histories with R (Use R!)

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