Despite past research, uncertainty exists about the processes and factors that motivate couples to limit family size. Under the Measurement, Learning & Evaluation (MLE) Project for the Urban Reproductive Health Initiative, the authors undertook a comprehensive review to advance the current state of knowledge about what makes family planning programs work. The review synthesized research conduct...

This paper develops a class of density regression models based on proportional hazards family, namely, Gamma transformation proportional hazard (Gt-PH) model . Exact inference for the regression parameters and hazard ratio is derived. These estimators enjoy some good properties such as unbiased estimation, which may not be shared by other inference methods such as maximum likelihood estimate (M...

Previous research introduced Conditional Phase-type distributions (C-Ph) consisting of a Coxian phase-type distribution conditioned on a BN where the phase-type distribution represents a continuous survival variable, the duration of time until a particular event occurs and the BN represents a network of inter-related variables. The C-Ph model has proved to be a suitable technique for modeling p...