Gupta, Arindam; Pasupuleti, Samba Siva Rao - In: Journal of Applied Statistics 40 (2013) 9, pp. 1921-1930
Modelling age-specific fertility rates is of great importance in demography because of their influence on population growth. Although we have a variety of fertility models in the demographic literature, most of them do not have any demographic interpretation for their parameters. It is generally...