A plea for useless curiosity

A Plea For Microsimulation

German demographic or educational projections are conventionally based on macrosimulations. Macrosimulation models use average values of the simulation parameters to compute the updating process. Additionally, the proportions of educational graduate rates stay constant in these models. In this paper I introduce a discrete event microsimulation model which is designed to project the graduate rat...

A Plea for Barabbas.

A Plea for Malaria

A Plea for Hakeems

Provinces, we were deeply interested, and strongly impressed, by that part of the returns which gave information as to the number of hakeems and baeds in the different districts of that Government. From this we gather that there are 7,000 practitioners of medicine and surgery in that division of the country, giving a proportion of one medical man to every 4,285 of the general population. This i...

A Plea for Errors

This paper argues that all historical data series should be accompanied by formal estimates of their margins of error. We discuss the nature of errors in data series and review earlier attempts to assess their reliability. We show how overall margins of error may be calculated for historical series from judgments on the reliability of their components, and how these allow readers both to apprai...