Reforging the wedding ring: Exploring a semi-artificial model of population for the united kingdom with gaussian process emulators

Demographic Research

Volumn 29, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Bijak, Jakub ^a   Hilton, Jason ^a   Silverman, Eric ^a   Cao, Viet Dung ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84995484895     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14359871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2013.29.27     Document Type: Article

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