Small-area population forecasting: Borrowing strength across space and time

Population, Space and Place

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 505-520

  Chi, Guangqing ^a   Voss, Paul R ^b  

^a MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Neighbour characteristics; Neighbour growth; Population forecasting; Small area; Spatio temporal regression

Indexed keywords

CENSUS; DECISION MAKING; DEMOGRAPHIC SURVEY; FORECASTING METHOD; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION GROWTH; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

UNITED STATES; WISCONSIN;

EID: 79957968619     PISSN: 15448444     EISSN: 15448452     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/psp.617     Document Type: Article

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