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fertilmodel (version 1.4)

Fertility Models

Description

Four fertility models are fitted using non-linear least squares. These are the Hadwiger, the Gamma, the Model1 and Model2, following the terminology of the following paper: Peristera P. and Kostaki A. (2007). "Modeling fertility in modern populations". Demographic Research, 16(6): 141--194. . Model based averaging is also supported.

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install.packages('fertilmodel')

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Version

1.4

License

GPL (>= 2)

Maintainer

Michail Tsagris

Last Published

November 29th, 2024

Functions in fertilmodel (1.4)

fertil.plot

Plot of the age-specific fertility rates and the estimated values from one or more fertility models
Hadwiger

Fertility models
comb

Model based average of the estimated values from two or more fertility models
fertilmodel-package

This is an R package that fits 4 fertility models.