Age-period-cohort analysis of vital data has received much attention recently, and it is already well known that the exact linear relation of the three time factors creates a non-identifiability problem. Previous studies have shown that the curvature terms of these factors are estimable but the line
Modelling the Age-Period-Cohort Trend Surface
✍ Scribed by Wen C. Lee; Ruey S. Lin
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1996
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 501 KB
- Volume
- 38
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0323-3847
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