Bayes plus Brass: Estimating total fertility for many small areas from sparse census data

Population Studies

Volumn 67, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 255-273

  Schmertmann, Carl P ^a   Cavenaghi, Suzana M ^b   Assunção, Renato M ^c   Potter, Joseph E ^d  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Escola Nacional de Ciencias Estatisticas   (Brazil)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian statistics; Brass's parity correction; Brazil; Empirical Bayes; fertility; indirect estimation; small areas; spatial statistics

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; CENSUS; DEMOGRAPHIC SURVEY; DEMOGRAPHIC TREND; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; ERROR ANALYSIS; ERROR CORRECTION; ESTIMATION METHOD; FERTILITY; SPATIAL VARIATION;

BRAZIL;

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BIRTH RATE; BRAZIL; DEMOGRAPHY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; FERTILITY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION RESEARCH;

BAYES THEOREM; BIRTH RATE; BRAZIL; CENSUSES; DATA COLLECTION; DEMOGRAPHY; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FERTILITY; HUMANS; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

EID: 84886388711     PISSN: 00324728     EISSN: 14774747     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00324728.2013.795602     Document Type: Article

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