Structured additive distributional hurdle Poisson modelling of individual fertility levels in Nigeria

Abstract Fertility is one of the dynamic components of population and has been modelled through children ever born per woman, which is a count variable that can be characterized with excessive zeros origination from women without any births. In order to examine the spatial variation across states of...

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Main Authors: Omodolapo Somo-Aina, Ezra Gayawan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2019-09-01
Series:Genus
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s41118-019-0067-9