Estimating multistate transition rates from population distributions
The ability to estimate transition rates (or probabilities) from population distributions has many potential applications in demography. Iterative Proportional Fitting (IPF) has been used for such estimation, but lacks a meaningful behavioral, or demographic, foundation. Here a new approach, Relativ...
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| Language: | English |
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Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research
2003-08-01
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| Series: | Demographic Research |
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| Online Access: | http://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol9/1/ |