Developing official stochastic population forecasts at the US Census Bureau

International Statistical Review

Volumn 72, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 201-208

  Long, John F ^a   Hollmann, Frederick W ^a  

^a U S CENSUS BUREAU   (United States)

Author keywords

Composition effects; Hispanic origin; Racial disaggregation; Stochastic forecasting; User demand

Indexed keywords

EID: 3142724028     PISSN: 03067734     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-5823.2004.tb00233.x     Document Type: Article

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