Entropy Based Modelling for Estimating Demographic Trends.

Entropy Based Modelling for Estimating Demographic Trends.

In this paper, an entropy-based method is proposed to forecast the demographical changes of countries. We formulate the estimation of future demographical profiles as a constrained optimization problem, anchored on the empirically validated assumption that the entropy of age distribution is increasi...

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Main Authors: Guoqi Li, Daxuan Zhao, Yi Xu, Shyh-Hao Kuo, Hai-Yan Xu, Nan Hu, Guangshe Zhao, Christopher Monterola
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4575178?pdf=render

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