Educational objectives GOALS
Ability in gaining access to statistical-demographic sources and in selecting them – knowledge and ability to use measurement tools – representation and analysis of demographic phenomena – construction of elimination tables – demographic forecasts – ability to observe longitudinal and transversal demographic processes – understanding of the relations existent between the structure and the dynamics of a population.
SKILLS TO ACQUIRE
Ability to understand the factors feeding the population processes – knowledge and ability to use the techniques which allow to gather the necessary information to study the dimensions, the structure and the dynamics of a population – competence in the study of the structure of the population – ability to analyze the mortality, fertility, reproductivity, migration rate processes – overall ability to study the development of demography and to analyze different demographic behaviours within and among populations.
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Educational objectives Students will be able to use theoretical and practical tools to model real phenomena. They will use the R statistical package to analyze real data.
Students will be able to build a statistical model and to make inference
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