A sickle transition-rate model with starting threshold

Statistical Methods and Applications

Volumn 10, Issue 1-3, 2001, Pages 139-155

  Billari, Francesco C ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR DEMOGRAPHIC RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Event history analysis; Italy; Long term survivors; Marriage life course; Sickle model; Starting threshold; Statistical demography; Union formation

Indexed keywords

EID: 52549104536     PISSN: 16182510     EISSN: 1613981X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02511645     Document Type: Article

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