Bayesian reconstruction of two‐sex populations by age: estimating sex ratios at birth and sex ratios of mortality
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Bayesian reconstruction of two‐sex populations by age: estimating sex ratios at birth and sex ratios of mortality
The original version of Bayesian reconstruction, a method for estimating age-specific fertility, mortality, migration and population counts of the recent past with uncertainty, produced estimates for female-only populations. Here we show how two-sex populations can be similarly reconstructed and probabilistic estimates of various sex ratio quantities obtained. We demonstrate the method by recon...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A (Statistics in Society)
سال: 2015
ISSN: 0964-1998,1467-985X
DOI: 10.1111/rssa.12104