| popReconstruct-package {popReconstruct} | R Documentation |
Reconstruct Human Populations of the Recent Past
Description
popReconstruct is a package for reconstructing populations of the recent past. It simultaneously estimates age-specific population counts, fertility rates, mortality rates and net international migration flows from fragmentary data, and incorporates measurement error. Informative priors are required for vital rates, migration rates, population counts at baseline, and their respective measurement error variances. Inference is based on the joint posterior probability distribution which yields fully probabilistic interval estimates. A sample from this distribution is drawn using a Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithm.
Details
The DESCRIPTION file:
| Package: | popReconstruct |
| Type: | Package |
| Title: | Reconstruct Human Populations of the Recent Past |
| Version: | 1.0-6 |
| Date: | 2019-11-21 |
| Author: | Mark C. Wheldon |
| Maintainer: | "Mark C. Wheldon" <biostatmark@gmail.com> |
| Description: | Implements the Bayesian hierarchical model described by Wheldon, Raftery, Clark and Gerland (see: <doi:10.1080/01621459.2012.737729>) for simultaneously estimating age-specific population counts, fertility rates, mortality rates and net international migration flows, at the national level. |
| License: | GPL-3 |
| Depends: | coda |
| Suggests: | ggplot2, reshape, gdata |
Index of help topics:
burkina_faso_females
Data for the Vignette
burkina-faso-females
life.expectancy.stationary
Life Expectancy At Birth in a
Stationary Population
make.leslie.matrix
Make Leslie Matrix
net.number.migrants
Calculate Net Number of Migrants
popRecon.ccmp.female
Female Dominant Cohort Component
Projection
popRecon.sampler
MCMC Sampler for the popReconstruct
Package
popReconstruct-package
Reconstruct Human Populations of
the Recent Past
See the vignette burkina-faso-females for a detailed illustration.
Vignettes
burkina-faso-females
Author(s)
Mark C. Wheldon
Maintainer: "Mark C. Wheldon" <biostatmark@gmail.com>
References
Wheldon, M. C., Raftery, A. E., Clark, S. J. and Gerland, P. (2013). Reconstructing Past Populations With Uncertainty From Fragmentary Data. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 108:501, 96-110. doi: 10.1080/01621459.2012.737729.