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