{"title":"A note on Brass's model for the distribution of births in human populations.","authors":"B N Bhattacharya, D C Nath","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":84956,"journal":{"name":"Janasamkhya","volume":"5 2","pages":"103-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1987-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22011775","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Probability distributions of number of births and their implications.","authors":"B N Bhattacharya, D C Nath","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":84956,"journal":{"name":"Janasamkhya","volume":"5 2","pages":"73-88"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1987-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22011777","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Weighted least square estimates of the parameters of a model of survivorship probabilities.","authors":"S Mitra","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>\"A weighted regression has been fitted to estimate the parameters of a model involving functions of survivorship probability and age. Earlier, the parameters were estimated by the method of ordinary least squares and the results were very encouraging. However, a multiple regression equation passing through the origin has been found appropriate for the present model from statistical consideration. Fortunately, this method, while methodologically more sophisticated, has a slight edge over the former as evidenced by the respective measures of reproducibility in the model and actual life tables selected for this study.\"</p>","PeriodicalId":84956,"journal":{"name":"Janasamkhya","volume":"5 1","pages":"27-32"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1987-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22012446","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Toward a unified approach to expounding demographic indices.","authors":"K Namboodiri","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>\"Based on the notion that duration of occupancy of a demographic state is a random variable and defining demographic behaviours in terms of hazard rates or transitional intensities, this review paper shows that a framework of piecewise exponentials can provide a unified approach in expounding demographic indices.\" The primary focus is on mortality.</p>","PeriodicalId":84956,"journal":{"name":"Janasamkhya","volume":"5 1","pages":"1-25"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1987-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22012445","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Method of fitting logistic curve.","authors":"K R Narayana","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>\"The paper presents a simple method of fitting the Logistic Curve by estimating the parameters in a different way than the methods known in the literature.\"</p>","PeriodicalId":84956,"journal":{"name":"Janasamkhya","volume":"5 1","pages":"69-72"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1987-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22012451","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Multiregional two-sex population model.","authors":"D C Nath","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>\"The theory of stable population has been developed quite thoroughly in the demographic literature, but it deals with single-region populations that are assumed to be undisturbed by migration. Rogers...proposed the stable population model for the case of a multiregional population that experiences internal migration for single-sex. In this paper, considering a birth-function dependent on both sexes, the multiregional stable population model is extended for two-sex population.\"</p>","PeriodicalId":84956,"journal":{"name":"Janasamkhya","volume":"5 1","pages":"33-40"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1987-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22012447","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On a relationship between conception rates in a fertility model.","authors":"V K Singh, U N Singh","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":84956,"journal":{"name":"Janasamkhya","volume":"5 1","pages":"61-7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1987-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22012450","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Rural-urban fertility differentials in India.","authors":"K B Pathak, P K Murthy","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":84956,"journal":{"name":"Janasamkhya","volume":"5 1","pages":"41-59"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1987-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22012448","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sampling errors and correlations in a fertility simulation.","authors":"J C Barrett","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":84956,"journal":{"name":"Janasamkhya","volume":"4 2","pages":"123-35"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1986-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22007420","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Timing the second birth: fecundability models for selected race and age groups in Hawaii.","authors":"D A Swanson","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":84956,"journal":{"name":"Janasamkhya","volume":"4 2","pages":"81-113"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1986-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22007423","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}