Tentative Syllabus
I -- 20 Jan -- A -- Organization of the Course
B -- Spatial Demography
Population Density and Urbanization
The Rank-Size Law
II -- 26 Jan -- A -- Random Walks and Cartograms
-- B -- Experimental Economic Demography
III -- 2 Feb -- A -- Cartograms and Principles of GIS
B -- Experiments on Family Dynamics
IV -- 9 Feb -- A -- Polygons and Distance Metrics
B -- Household and Family Classification
V -- 16 Feb -- A -- Inequality, Disparity, Dissimilarity
-- B -- Concentration and Separation
VI -- 23 Feb -- A -- Gravity Models
B -- Agent-Based Spatial Models
VII -- 2 Mar -- A -- The Metropolis-Hastings Algorithm
B -- Microsimulation
VIII -- 9 Mar -- A -- Bayesian Melding
B -- Measuring Uncertainty