Advanced Demographic Methods

This course is a doctoral seminar in modern demographic methods and theory, with a focus on application in dissertation research. We cover non-stable population methods, including tempo and quantum as well as variable-r methods; population projection; modern multistate life table methods; multivariate and functional decomposition; event history (survival) models; indirect estimation; sample survey methods; the biology and demography of aging, including coverage of biomarkers, Alzheimer's disease, and quantitative models for aging; modeling heterogeneity and selection; imputation of missing data; and sources of data in population research.