Are infant mortality rate declines exponential? The general pattern of 20th century infant mortality rate decline
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Are infant mortality rate declines exponential? The general pattern of 20th century infant mortality rate decline
BACKGROUND Time trends in infant mortality for the 20th century show a curvilinear pattern that most demographers have assumed to be approximately exponential. Virtually all cross-country comparisons and time series analyses of infant mortality have studied the logarithm of infant mortality to account for the curvilinear time trend. However, there is no evidence that the log transform is the be...
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عنوان ژورنال: Population Health Metrics
سال: 2009
ISSN: 1478-7954
DOI: 10.1186/1478-7954-7-13