Estimation of international migration flow tables in Europe

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

Volumn 173, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 797-825

  Abel, Guy J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Constrained optimization; Flow tables; International migration; Migration estimation; Negative binomial regression; Supplemented expectation maximization algorithm

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956858139     PISSN: 09641998     EISSN: 1467985X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-985X.2009.00636.x     Document Type: Article

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