Using zero-inflated count regression models to estimate the fertility of U. S. women

Journal of Modern Applied Statistical Methods

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 371-379

  Poston Jr , Dudley L ^a,b   McKibben, Sherry L ^a,b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Sociology ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Demography; Fertility; Negative binomial regression; Poisson regression; Zero counts

Indexed keywords

EID: 17844388250     PISSN: 15389472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.22237/jmasm/1067645400     Document Type: Article

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