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: Monterola, Christopher, Li, Guoqi, Zhao, Daxuan, Xu, Yi, Kuo, Shyh-Hao, Xu, Hai-Yan, Hu, Nan, Zhao, Guangshe
Other Authors: Gao, Zhong-Ke
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: 2015
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10356/83650
http://hdl.handle.net/10220/39134
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Institution: Nanyang Technological University
Language: English