Scenarios, uncertainty and conditional forecasts of the world population

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A: Statistics in Society

Volumn 160, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 71-85

  Alho, Juha M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

Demography; Forecasting; Population scenarios; Propagation of error

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ERROR SOURCES; ESTIMATION TECHNICS; FORECASTING; MEASUREMENT; METHODOLOGICAL STUDIES; METHODOLOGY; POPULATION FORECAST; POPULATION PROJECTION; RESEARCH; STATISTICS; TECHNIQUE; WORLD;

ERROR SOURCES; ESTIMATION TECHNICS; MEASUREMENT; METHODOLOGICAL STUDIES; POPULATION FORECAST; POPULATION PROJECTION; RESEARCH METHODOLOGY; WORLD;

FORECASTING; METHODS; RESEARCH; RESEARCH DESIGN; STATISTICS;

EID: 0030642418     PISSN: 09641998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-985X.00046     Document Type: Article

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