Generalised count distributions for modelling parity
<b>Background</b>: Parametric count distributions customarily used in demography - the Poisson and negative binomial models - do not offer satisfactory descriptions of empirical distributions of completed cohort parity. One reason is that they cannot model variance-to-mean ratios below u...
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Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research
2017-03-01
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| Series: | Demographic Research |
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| Online Access: | https://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol36/26/ |