Demography 260

Professor Kenneth W. Wachter

Spring Semester 2014, U.C. Berkeley

Expertise in Quantitative Demography

Wednesdays 9:30 to 11:30 A.M. with lab 1:30-2:30 P.M., Seminar Room, 2232 Piedmont Avenue

(Updated 5 March 2014)

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Part One: Population Momentum
Week I 22 Jan. Stable States and Reproductive Values
Week II 29 Jan. Population Momentum
Week III 5 Feb. Cumulants
Week IV 12 Feb. Stable Transfers and Promotions
Part Two: Demographic Selection
Week V 19 Feb. Lifeluck, Risk, and Frailty
Week VI 26 Feb. Demographic Selection on Vitality
Week VII 5 Mar. Correlated Frailty and Heritability
Part Three Genomic and Demographic Data
Week VIII 12 Mar. SNPs, SNVs, and GWAS
Week IX 19 Mar. Race and the Genome; Relationship Matrices
Week X 2 Apr. Genome-Wide Complex Trait Analysis
Part Four: Agent-Based Modeling
Week XI 9 Apr. Microsimulation Design
Week XII 16 Apr. Birth interval modeling
Week XIII 23 Apr. Kinship configurations
Part Five: Special Requests
Week XIV 30 Apr. Option 1

                           

``Fiat Lux''

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