Modeling human fertility in the presence of measurement error

Biometrics

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 288-292

  Dunson, David B ^a   Weinberg, Clarice R ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian hierarchical model; Conception; Fecundability; Latent variables; Mixture model; Ovulation

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; MARKOV PROCESSES; MONTE CARLO METHODS;

BAYESIAN HIERARCHICAL MODELLING; BETA MIXTURE MODELS; CONCEPTION; ERROR PRONES; FECUNDABILITY; HUMAN FERTILITY; LATENT VARIABLE; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; MIXTURE MODELING; OVULATION;

MEASUREMENT ERRORS;

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CONCEPTION; FERTILITY; LATENT PERIOD; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; PROBABILITY; SEXUAL INTERCOURSE; STATISTICAL MODEL;

EID: 0034017886     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0006-341X.2000.00288.x     Document Type: Article

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