Modelling fertility in rural South Africa with combined nonlinear parametric and semi-parametric methods

Abstract Background Central to the study of populations, and therefore to the analysis of the development of countries undergoing major transitions, is the calculation of fertility patterns and their dependence on different variables such as age, education, and socio-economic status. Most epidemiolo...

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Main Authors: Robert W. Eyre, Thomas House, F. Xavier Gómez-Olivé, Frances E. Griffiths
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2018-03-01
Series:Emerging Themes in Epidemiology
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12982-018-0073-y