Monte Carlo exact methods used for analysing interethnic unions in Great Britain

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series C: Applied Statistics

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 191-202

  Smith, Peter W F ^a   McDonald, John W ^b   Forster, Jonathan J ^b   Berrington, Ann M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Exact conditional tests; Gibbs sampler; Markov chain Monte Carlo methods; Metropolis Hastings sampling; Quasi independence; Quasi symmetry; Symmetric contingency table

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURAL BACKGROUND; DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS; DEMOGRAPHY; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; ETHNIC GROUP; EUROPE; INTERMARRIAGE; MARRIAGE; MARRIAGE PATTERNS; METHODOLOGICAL STUDIES; METHODOLOGY; NORTHERN EUROPE; NUPTIALITY; POPULATION; POPULATION AND POPULATION RELATED PHENOMENA; PROBABILITY; RESEARCH; STATISTICAL STUDIES; STATISTICS; STUDIES; TECHNIQUE; UNITED KINGDOM;

CULTURAL BACKGROUND; DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; ETHNIC GROUPS; EUROPE; INTERMARRIAGE; MARKOV CHAIN; MARRIAGE; MARRIAGE PATTERNS; METHODOLOGICAL STUDIES; NORTHERN EUROPE; NUPTIALITY; POPULATION; POPULATION CHARACTERISTICS; PROBABILITY; RESEARCH METHODOLOGY; STATISTICAL STUDIES; STUDIES; UNITED KINGDOM;

CULTURE; DEMOGRAPHY; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; ETHNIC GROUPS; EUROPE; GREAT BRITAIN; MARKOV CHAINS; MARRIAGE; METHODS; POPULATION; POPULATION CHARACTERISTICS; PROBABILITY; RESEARCH; STATISTICS;

EID: 0029704183     PISSN: 00359254     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2986154     Document Type: Article

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