380.650.01
Fundamentals of Life Tables
Location
East Baltimore
Term
3rd Term
Department
Population, Family and Reproductive Health
Credit(s)
4
Academic Year
2015 - 2016
Instruction Method
TBD
Tu, Th, 1:30 - 3:20pm
Auditors Allowed
Yes, with instructor consent
Available to Undergraduate
No
Grading Restriction
Letter Grade or Pass/Fail
Course Instructor(s)
Course Instructor(s)
Stephane Helleringer
Contact Name
Frequency Schedule
Every Year
Resources
Prerequisite
380.603 Demographic Methods in Public Health and 380.600 Principles of Population Change are both highly recommended.
Participants learn to analyze population phenomena using life table methods including single, multiple-decrement and multi-state life tables. Explores the relations among functions in the life table and its applications to key population processes. Emphasizes the theoretical concepts underlying this methodology, as well as the practice of estimating demographically meaningful results. Interactively presents course materials, allowing students to gain hands-on experience in manipulating the principal functions of a life table and become familiar with the type of research that can be based on them.
Learning Objectives
Upon successfully completing this course, students will be able to:
- Calculate and interpret demographic measure
- Create and utilize lexis diagrams
- Construct and know assumptions behind and interpret single and multiple decrement life tables, as well as multi-state life tables
- Describe demographic databases, how to access them and how to use them with basic programming in R