Demographic research using the popbio package

Good tutorial here.

Jamsim

Jamsim is a microsimulation took utilizing R and Java. It looks fascinating. Its documentation can improve in the future.

A few words describing population projection

Projection in demography is calculating survivors down cohort lines of those living at a given point in time, calculating births in each successive period, and adding a suitable allowance for migration. Of the various ways of looking at population dynamics, the one most convenient for the present purpose is the matrix approach (Chapter 7). Such calculations were used, before Leslie (1945) expressed them in matrix form, by Cannan (1895), Bowley (1924), and especially Whelpton (1936).

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Here is some intro. materials, implemented in Stata. Even though I have been using Stata for a long time, I have never spent any timing learning Mata, too bad.

Demography package

This package seems useful for demographers.

A new demography journal

The Open Demography Journal.

Demography

Demography accepts PDF submission, which is almost the same thing as accepting LaTeX. I am going to make a LaTeX style file based on the one for Political Analysis.

Journal of Population Economics

Also allows LaTeX submission: http://www.springer.com/economics/population/journal/148?detailsPage=contentItemPage&CIPageCounter=512609

Demographic Research

Demographic Research (www.demographic-research.org) is the only population journal that takes LaTeX submission. I hope there will be more adopters soon.

demogR

As a demographer, it is really exciting to find a toolkit designed for demographic analysis: http://cran.stat.ucla.edu/

This is a short paper explaining the usage of it: http://www.jstatsoft.org/v22/i10/paper