Life Tables ? A Plea for their Use.
Journal Article
Raeside, R., & Windle, D. (1991)
Life Tables ? A Plea for their Use. Teaching Statistics, 13(3), 78-81. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9639.1991.tb00182.x
This article highlights the important contribution that life tables can make to teaching in the social sciences and in engineering subjects, especially when comparative work i...
The Use of Sigmoids in Modelling and Forecasting Human Populations
Journal Article
Raeside, R. (1988)
The Use of Sigmoids in Modelling and Forecasting Human Populations. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A, 151(3), 499. https://doi.org/10.2307/2982997
The use of sigmoid trend models, particularly the logistic model, was once popular among demographers. However, by 1940 the approach had fallen out of favour, being criticized...