Description: Lecture, three hours. Enforced requisite: course M213A. Population models and their dynamics in population processes. How demographic models are used in estimation of population size, age structure, and associated dynamics. Computer simulations of demographic processes to gauge conclusions from demographic models. Estimation of demographic models in human population and broader relevance of demographic analysis to study of any population or system, including health and social systems. S/U or letter grading.

Units: 4.0