Why population forecasts should be probabilistic - Illustrated by the case of Norway

Demographic Research

Volumn 6, Issue , 2002, Pages 409-453

  Keilman, Nico ^a,b   Pham, Dinh Quang ^b   Hetland, Arve ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b STATISTICS NORWAY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Forecasting

Indexed keywords

EID: 3042672674     PISSN: 14359871     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4054/demres.2002.6.15     Document Type: Article

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