Abstract
This paper presents a new method for estimating the time of the onset of marital fertility decline. The proposed method produces a maximum likelihood least squares estimate for the point of change in a sequence of marital fertility indexes. It is suggested that the proposed method has certain advantages over previous attempts to estimate the time of the onset of marital fertility decline.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 37-49 |
| Number of pages | 13 |
| Journal | Mathematical Population Studies |
| Volume | 4 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Feb 1993 |
Keywords
- Estimation
- fertility decline
- maximum likelihood
- multiple regression analysis
- point of change