Demographic Applications of Event History Analysis (International Studies in Demography) - Hardcover

Trussell, James; Hankinson, Richard

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0198283865 ISBN 13: 9780198283867

Verlag: Clarendon Press, 1992

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This study illustrates the use of new techniques for the analysis of individual life histories that contain dates of relevant demographic events such as births, marriages, marital dissolutions, and migrations. The book focuses on major methodological approaches and their differences.

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Event history analysis--the study of individual life histories--has developed rapidly over the past few years. This volume illustrates the use of the new techniques at the frontier of the subject. The number of surveys undertaken throughout the world to collect detailed information on the timing of events in individual lives--such as fertility surveys or migration histories--has increased, and new methods to analyze such data have developed. Unresolved technical and practical issues remain, however, and researchers often have limited experience of the new techniques--this volume addresses these issues and provides information on the new methodologies. The book covers three main areas. First, it summarizes the work on the incorporation of unmeasured heterogeneity into the analysis of event histories; secondly, it introduces a series of 'competitions' in which pairs of teams are assigned to analyse the same topic using the same data; finally, it discusses other methodological issues such as the treatment of missing data, the analysis of current-status data, and the relation between discrete and continuous time models.

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• Verlag: Clarendon Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1992
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0198283865
• ISBN 13: 9780198283867
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 288
• Herausgeber: Tilton Judith
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