Population Reconstruction

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Bloothooft, Gerrit (Editor), Christen, Peter (Editor), Mandemakers, Kees (Editor), Schraagen, Marijn (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2015.
• Subjects: Social sciences.; History.; Data mining.; Information storage and retrieval.; Application software.; Statistics.; Demography.; Social Sciences.; Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery.; Computer Appl. in Arts and Humanities.; History, general.; Statistics for Social Science, Behavorial Science, Education, Public Policy, and Law.; Information Storage and Retrieval.

This book addresses the problems that are encountered, and solutions that have been proposed, when we aim to identify people and to reconstruct populations under conditions where information is scarce, ambiguous, fuzzy and sometimes erroneous. The process from handwritten registers to a reconstructe...