Comparing the Results from Generalized Inverse Projection and Stochastic Inverse Projection.

This chapter shows the results from a study aimed at stressing the differences between two methods of population reconstruction - Generalised Inverse Projection and Stochastic Inverse Projection - in the back projection frame (when the terminal population age structure is specified) and their performance when data are scarce, as it is often the case in historical populations. The two models are applied to the same data set, for which population totals and age structures are known, and the reconstructed population surfaces and the estimates of the demographic parameters are compared with these known values.