Aggregation across countries in stochastic population forecasts

International Journal of Forecasting

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 343-353

  Alho, Juha ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

Correlations; Demography; Multi state; Principal components

Indexed keywords

EID: 49349107744     PISSN: 01692070     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijforecast.2008.05.003     Document Type: Article

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