bayesTFR: An R package for probabilistic projections of the total fertility rate

Journal of Statistical Software

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-29

  Ševčíková, Hana ^a   Alkema, Leontine ^b   Raftery, Adrian E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Autoregressive model; Bayesian hierarchical model; Fertility projection methodology; Markov chain monte carlo; R; United nations; World population prospects

Indexed keywords

EID: 80051557970     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15487660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.18637/jss.v043.i01     Document Type: Article

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