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The Demographic Transition Model
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Introduction In reviewing the material for this presentation, one of the principal references given for the topic of "Models" was that of Livingstone 1992, which above all else gives a good historical account of the Quantitative Revolution, and places subjects such as those of modelling into some context. To go further than this, however, will be to go over ground that has already been covered in a previous presentation. We have also already established that the use of a model serves to provide a broad framework of explanation and which should contain relatively few variables and centred upon a range of common denominators within the field of study. In essence, to construct any model based upon too complicated a set of hypotheses and with too broad a range of variables defeats the very object and purpose, which is simply to establish a framework within which to work. A well constructed model...
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