The determinants of infant mortality in Malaysia: A graphical chain modelling approach

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

Volumn 161, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 349-366

  Mohamed, Wan Norsiah ^a   Diamond, Ian ^c   Smith, Peter W F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITI KEBANGSAAN MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Conditional independence; Direct association; Graphical chain models; Indirect association; Infant mortality; Mosley and Chen framework

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASIA; DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS; DEMOGRAPHY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ECONOMIC FACTORS; ECONOMICS; INFANT MORTALITY; INTERMEDIATE VARIABLES; MALAYSIA; METHODOLOGY; MORTALITY; NEWBORN MORTALITY; POPULATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RESEARCH; SOCIOECONOMICS; SOUTHEAST ASIA; SOUTHEASTERN ASIA; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ASIA; DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; ECONOMIC FACTORS; INFANT MORTALITY; INTERMEDIATE VARIABLES; MALAYSIA; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MORTALITY; NEONATAL MORTALITY; POPULATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RESEARCH METHODOLOGY; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SOUTHEASTERN ASIA;

ASIA; ASIA, SOUTHEASTERN; DEMOGRAPHY; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; ECONOMICS; INFANT MORTALITY; MALAYSIA; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MORTALITY; POPULATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RESEARCH; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 0032245907     PISSN: 09641998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-985X.00113     Document Type: Article

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