Accounting for unreported and missing intercourse in human fertility studies

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 665-679

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

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; FERTILITY; METHODOLOGY; MODEL; OVULATION; SEXUAL INTERCOURSE; SYSTEM ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHMS; BAYES THEOREM; COITUS; FEMALE; FERTILITY; FERTILIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MARKOV CHAINS; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; OVULATION; PREGNANCY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0034653454     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0258(20000315)19:5<665::AID-SIM391>3.0.CO;2-P     Document Type: Article

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