Modelling individual fertility levels in Malawian women: A spatial semiparametric regression model

Statistical Methods and Applications

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 237-255

  Kazembe, Lawrence N ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MALAWI   (Malawi)

^b SOUTH AFRICAN MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Bayesian; Children ever born; Clustering; Fertility levels; Malawi; Poisson regression; Spatial modelling

Indexed keywords

EID: 65949113620     PISSN: 16182510     EISSN: 1613981X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10260-007-0076-2     Document Type: Article

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