Computer Simulation in Human Population Studies
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Computer Simulation in Human Population Studies

  1. 540 pages
  2. English
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Computer Simulation in Human Population Studies

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Computer Simulation in Human Population Studies contains the proceedings of a conference held at Pennsylvania State University on June 12-14, 1972, under the sponsorship of the Social Science Research Council. The conference provided a forum for discussing the application of computer simulation techniques to human population studies and organized topics around four themes: anthropology and social systems; genetics and adaptive systems; demography; and simulation methodology. Comprised of 23 chapters, this volume begins with an analysis of two tests of computer microsimulation: the effect of an incest taboo on population viability, and the effect of age differences between spouses on the skewing of their consanguineal relationships. The reader is then introduced to computer simulation of incest prohibition and clan proscription rules in closed, finite population; an empirical perspective on simulation models of human population; and models applicable to geographic variation in humans. Subsequent chapters deal with the role of co-adapted sets in the process of adaptation; simulation of human reproduction; and the mathematics of population simulation models. This book will be of interest to anthropologists, geneticists, biologists, computer scientists, mathematicians, and social scientists.

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Information

Publisher
Academic Press
Year
2014
Print ISBN
9780127851853
eBook ISBN
9781483264554
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Anthropology
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Computer Simulation in Human Population Studies
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Table of Contens
  5. Dedication
  6. PREFACE
  7. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  8. LIST OF PARTICIPANTS
  9. OTHER CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS VOLUME
  10. CHAPTER 1. TWO TESTS OF COMPUTER MICROSIMULATION: THE EFFECT OF AN INCEST TABU ON POPULATION VIABILITY, AND THE EFFECT OF AGE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN SPOUSES ON THE SKEWING OF CONSANGUINEAL RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN THEM
  11. CHAPTER 2. COMPUTER SIMULATION OF INCEST PROHIBITION AND CLAN PROSCRIPTION RULES IN CLOSED, FINITE POPULATIONS
  12. CHAPTER 3. AN EMPIRICAL PERSPECTIVE ON SIMULATION MODELS OF HUMAN POPULATION
  13. CHAPTER 4. ESTIMATION OF CHANGING RATES BY SIMULATION
  14. CHAPTER 5. SIMULATION OVER SPACE
  15. CHAPTER 6. SIMULATING INFORMATION AND INNOVATION DIFFUSION PROCESSES
  16. CHAPTER 7. MODELS APPLICABLE TO GEOGRAPHIC VARIATION IN MAN
  17. CHAPTER 9. A BRIEF DISCUSSION OF THE ROLE OF CO-ADAPTED SETS IN THE PROCESS OF ADAPTATION
  18. CHAPTER 9. SIMULATION OF SMALL HUMAN POPULATIONS
  19. CHAPTER 10. AVOIDANCE OF INCEST: GENETIC AND DEMOGRAPHIC CONSEQUENCES
  20. CHAPTER 11. A SIMULATION OF THE FATE OF A MUTANT GENE OF NEUTRAL SELECTIVE VALUE IN A PRIMITIVE POPULATION
  21. CHAPTER 12. SIMULATING HUMAN REPRODUCTION: HOW COMPLICATED SHOULD A MODEL BE?
  22. CHAPTER 13. RESEARCH AND EXPERIENCE WITH DEMOGRAPHIC SIMULATION MODELS
  23. CHAPTER 14. THE EVALUATION OF FOUR ALTERNATIVE FAMILY PLANNING PROGRAMS FOR POPLAND, A LESS DEVELOPED COUNTRY
  24. CHAPTER 15. APPLICATIONS OF POPREP, A MODIFICATION OF POPSIM
  25. CHAPTER 16. THE ASSESSMENT OF THREE METHODS OF ESTIMATING BIRTHS AVERTED
  26. CHAPTER 17. THE TIME RESPONSE IN AVERTED BIRTHS
  27. CHAPTER 18. A MIGRATION MODEL
  28. CHAPTER 19. ON MATHEMATICS OF POPULATION SIMULATION MODELS
  29. CHAPTER 20. FOOTNOTES ON IMPLICATIONS OF AGGREGATED DATA USED IN POPULATION SIMULATION
  30. CHAPTER 21. COMPUTER GENERATION OF RANDOM VARIATES
  31. CHAPTER 22. THE USE OF DYSTAL IN SIMULATION
  32. CHAPTER 23. SPECIAL PURPOSE SIMULATION LANGUAGES FOR POPULATION STUDIES
  33. BIBLIOGRAPHY
  34. SUBJECT INDEX