2 papers
physics.soc-ph2024
How big does a population need to be before demographers can ignore individual-level randomness in demographic events?
John Bryant, Tahu Kukutai, Junni L. Zhang
When studying a national-level population, demographers can safely ignore the effect of individual-level randomness on age-sex structure. When studying a single community, or group…
stat.ME2024
Using child-woman ratios to infer demographic rates in historical populations with limited data
John Bryant, Tahu Kukutai
Data on historical populations often extends no further than numbers of people by broad age-sex group, with nothing on numbers of births or deaths. Demographers studying these popu…