Tutorial on Bayesian demographic estimation

Materials for tutorial as part of BMSS2, held on 16 October 2024.

Packages to install

If you would like to follow along with the coded examples, you will need to install the following packages:

• tidyverse
• rstan
• rstanarm
• tidybayes
• janitor
• rcbayes

The rstan package is probably the most important but also may prove to be finicky to install. See detailed instructions here: https://github.com/stan-dev/rstan/wiki/RStan-Getting-Started

Materials

• Intro slides
• Labs
  • Mortality estimation with Gompertz models: quarto doc; pdf
  • Mortality estimation with hierarchical principal component models: quarto doc; pdf
  • Migration estimation with Rogers Castro models: quarto doc; pdf