Quantitative Methods in Demography

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. COVID-19 Studies

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Reaction to COVID-19 Pandemic: An Evaluation of Pandemic Management Around the World

      • Yiannis Dimotikalis, Christos H. Skiadas

      Pages 3-14

   3. Effects of the Covid-19 Pandemic in the Area of Tension Between the Economy and Climate Change: A Case Study at Rural and City District Level in Southern Germany

      • Moneim Issa, Rolf Bergs

      Pages 15-35

   4. Predicting the Second Wave of COVID-19 Pandemic Through the Dynamic Evolving Neuro Fuzzy Inference System

      • Susanna Levantesi, Andrea Nigri, Gabriella Piscopo

      Pages 37-46

   5. Losses in Life Expectancy at Birth from 2020: The Impact of COVID-19 on the Structure of Mortality by Sex and Age in Brazil

      • Denise Helena França Marques, Geovane Máximo

      Pages 47-61

   6. Stochastic Comparison Between the Original SARS-CoV 2 Genetic Structure and SARS-CoV 2 - P.1 Variant

      • Jesús E. García, V. A. González-López, G. H. Tasca

      Pages 63-75

   7. Epidemic Management in the Emergency. Protection Measures, Cost and Compliance with Safety Protocols of the Employees of the Health Units. The Case of the General University Hospital of Heraklion “Venizeleio”, the Management and Pandemic of SARS-CoV-2

      • Anna Kefalaki, George Matalliotakis

      Pages 77-87

3. Global Health – Longevity

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 89-89

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   2. How to Estimate of the Healthy Life Expectancy (HLE) in the Far Past: Switzerland (1876–2016) and Forecasts to 2060 with Comparisons with HALE

      • Christos H. Skiadas, Charilaos Skiadas, Konstantinos N. Zafeiris

      Pages 91-95

   3. Global Health and Longevity: AnAnalysis of Post-World War II Data

      • Konstantinos N. Zafeiris, Christos Skiadas

      Pages 97-141

   4. Health Care Need Adjusted Prospective Old-age Dependency Ratio in Selected European Countries

      • Tomáš Fiala, Jitka Langhamrová, Jana Vrabcová

      Pages 143-154

   5. Spreading Disease Modeling Using Markov Random Fields

      • Stelios Zimeras

      Pages 155-163

4. Mortality – Survival

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 165-165

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   2. Mortality in Greece Before and During the Recent Economic Recession: Short-Terms Effects of the Economic Austerity

      • Byron Kotzamanis, Konstantinos Zafeiris, Anastasia Kostaki

      Pages 167-187

   3. Age Exaggeration Ruses: Infrequent Age Overstatement Distorts the Mortality Curve at Old Age

      • Dalkhat M. Ediev

      Pages 189-205

   4. Completeness Assessment of Neonatal Deaths in a Region of Brazil: Linkage and Imputing Missing Data

      • Neir Antunes Paes, Carlos Sérgio Araújo dos Santos, Tiê Dias de Farias Coutinho

      Pages 207-217

   5. A Decomposition Analysis of Differences in Length of Life in the Czech Republic

      • David Morávek, Jitka Langhamrová

      Pages 219-228

   6. Modelling Nigerian Female Mortality: An Application of Four Stochastic Mortality Models

      • Oluwaseun Eniola Adegbilero-Iwari, Angela Unna Chukwu

      Pages 229-244

   7. Gender, Health and Socio-demographic Influences on Updating Subjective Survival Probabilities

      • Apostolos Papachristos, Georgia Verropoulou

      Pages 245-259

This book provides quantitative and applied methodologies in the Covid-19 era exploring important issues in demography, population studies, and health. It provides insight into health and health measures as to the healthy life years lost and the healthy life expectancy related to Covid-19 pandemic. It also describes mortality and survival and focuses on data analysis in demography and population studies. Special methods and applications in demography and society are also described, thereby including applications in society, pension and insurance. As such, this book is a valuable guide for researchers, theoreticians and practitioners from various scientific fields.

• Effects of the Covid-19 pandemic in Southern Germany
• Old-age Dependency Ratio in Selected European Countries
• Corona virus in Europe: how do we measure it
• Comparing healthy life expectancy in Europe
• Covid-19 and other epidemics
• Distorts the mortality curve at old age
• Neonatal deaths in a region of Brazil
• Differences in Length of Life in the Czech Republic
• Modelling Nigerian Female Mortality
• Alcohol-attributable mortality in Czechia
• Taylor's power law in random graph models
• Social vulnerability in southern Italy, Calabria
• Alcohol consumption and marital status in the Czech Republic
• Intergenerational educational mobility in European countries
• Performance of the European Socio-economic Classification (ESeC)

• ManLab, Technical University of Crete, Chania, Greece

  Christos H. Skiadas

• Dept of Mathematics/Comp Science, Hanover College, Hanover, USA

  Charilaos Skiadas

Christos H. Skiadas, PhD, was the founder and director of the Data Analysis and Forecasting Laboratory at the Technical University of Crete, Greece, and former Vice-Rector of the University. He is chair of the Demographics Workshop series, the Applied Stochastic Models and Data Analysis Conference series and the Chaotic Modeling and Simulation Conference series. He has published more than 80 papers, three monographs, and 18 books, including probability, statistics, data analysis and forecasting. His research interests include innovation diffusion modeling and forecasting, life table data modeling, healthy life expectancy estimates, and deterministic, stochastic, and chaotic modeling.

Charilaos Skiadas, PhD, is an associate professor in mathematics and computer science at Hanover College, Indiana, USA. His research interests encompass a wide array of mathematical and computing topics, ranging from algebraic geometry to statistics and programming languages to data science and health state modeling.

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