Description: Towards Bayesian Model-based Demography : Agency, Complexity and Uncertainty in Migration Studies, Paperback by Bijak, Jakub; Higham, Philip A. (CON); Hilton, Jason (CON); Hinsch, Martin (CON); Nurse, Sarah (CON), ISBN 3030830411, ISBN-13 9783030830410, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US
This open access book presents a ground-breaking approach to developing micro-foundations for demography and migration studies. It offers a unique and novel methodology for creating empirically grounded agent-based models of international migration – one of the most uncertain population processes and a top-priority policy area. Th discusses in detail the process of building a simulation model of migration, based on a population of intelligent, cognitive agents, their networks and institutions, all interacting with one another. The proposed model-based approach integrates behavioural and social theory with formal modelling, by embedding the interdisciplinary modelling process within a wider inductive framework based on the Bayesian statistical reasoning. Principles of uncertainty quantification are used to devise innovative computer-based simulations, and to learn about modelling the simulated individuals and the way they make decisions. The identified knowledge gaps are subsequently filled with information from dedicated laboratory experiments on cognitive aspects of human decision-making under uncertainty. In this way, the models are built iteratively, from the bottom up, filling an important epistemological gap in migration studies, and social sciences more broadly.
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Book Title: Towards Bayesian Model-Based Demography : Agency, Complexity and Uncertainty in Migration Studies
Number of Pages: Xxv, 263 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Springer International Publishing A&G
Topic: Demography, Emigration & Immigration, Statistics
Publication Year: 2021
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Social Science
Item Weight: 15.9 Oz
Author: Jakub Bijak
Item Length: 9.3 in
Item Width: 6.1 in
Book Series: Methodos Ser.
Format: Trade Paperback
