A Bayesian Model for Fecundability and Sterility

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 95, Issue 452, 2000, Pages 1054-1062

  Dunson, David B ^a   Zhou, Haibo ^b  

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

^b IL   (United States)

Author keywords

Demography; Fertility; Mixture model; Probit model; Reproductive epidemiology; Time to pregnancy

Indexed keywords

EID: 0442278009     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: 1537274X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01621459.2000.10474302     Document Type: Article

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