Forecasting obesity trends in England

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A: Statistics in Society

Volumn 172, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 107-117

  Mills, Terence C ^a  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Compositional data analysis; Demographic forecasting; Health forecasting; Multivariate time series; Prediction intervals; Regression

Indexed keywords

EID: 57849094497     PISSN: 09641998     EISSN: 1467985X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-985X.2008.00550.x     Document Type: Article

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