Bayesian forecasting of cohort fertility

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 109, Issue 506, 2014, Pages 500-513

  Schmertmann, Carl ^a   Zagheni, Emilio ^b   Goldstein, Joshua R ^c   Myrskylä, Mikko ^d  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bayesian model; Demographic forecasting; Improper priors; Penalized least squares

Indexed keywords

EID: 84987862390     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: 1537274X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01621459.2014.881738     Document Type: Article

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