Bayesian demography: Projecting the iraqi kurdish population, 1977–1990

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 92, Issue 440, 1997, Pages 1256-1267

  Daponte, Beth Osborne ^a   Kadane, Joseph B ^b   Wolfson, Lara J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Census data; Cohort component projections; Elicitation; Forecasting; Population; Population projections; Subjective opinion; Vital rates

Indexed keywords

ARAB COUNTRIES; ARTICLE; ASIA; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURAL BACKGROUND; DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS; DEMOGRAPHY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ERROR SOURCES; ESTIMATION TECHNICS; ETHNIC GROUP; FORECASTING; IRAQ; MEASUREMENT; METHODOLOGICAL STUDIES; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE EAST; POPULATION; POPULATION AND POPULATION RELATED PHENOMENA; POPULATION FORECAST; POPULATION PROJECTION; RESEARCH; STATISTICS; TECHNIQUE; WESTERN ASIA;

ARAB COUNTRIES; ASIA; CULTURAL BACKGROUND; DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; ERROR SOURCES; ESTIMATION TECHNICS; ETHNIC GROUPS; IRAQ; MEASUREMENT; METHODOLOGICAL STUDIES; POPULATION; POPULATION CHARACTERISTICS; POPULATION FORECAST; POPULATION PROJECTION; RESEARCH METHODOLOGY; WESTERN ASIA;

ASIA; ASIA, WESTERN; CULTURE; DEMOGRAPHY; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; ETHNIC GROUPS; FORECASTING; IRAQ; METHODS; MIDDLE EAST; POPULATION; POPULATION CHARACTERISTICS; RESEARCH; RESEARCH DESIGN; STATISTICS;

EID: 0031313271     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: 1537274X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01621459.1997.10473647     Document Type: Article

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