Basic Concepts

David A. Swanson and Jeff Tayman
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David A. Swanson: University of California Riverside
Jeff Tayman: University of California San Diego, Department of Economics

Chapter Chapter 2 in Subnational Population Estimates, 2012, pp 13-41 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Creating, interpreting, and evaluating population estimates involves demographic, geographic, and statistical methods and data. This chapter introduces the major demographic concepts of size, distribution, characteristics, and the components of population change along with geographic concepts including Geographic Information Systems (GIS), density, center of population, concentration and clustering, distance, accessibility, and spatial interaction. We conclude with material on descriptive and inferential statistics, and regression techniques.

Keywords: Global Position System; Geographic Information System; Geographic Information System; Census Tract; Sampling Distribution (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-8954-0_2

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