A smoothing cohort model in age-period-cohort analysis with applications to homicide arrest rates and lung cancer mortality rates

Sociological Methods and Research

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 327-361

  Fu, Wenjiang J ^a,b,c  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Consistent estimation; Identifiability; Intrinsic estimator; Semiparametric; Singular design matrix; Spline smoothing

Indexed keywords

EID: 39449135159     PISSN: 00491241     EISSN: 15528294     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0049124107310637     Document Type: Article

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