An Adjustment of Truncation and Selection Effect for Estimating Conception Rate from First Birth Interval Data

Journal of Data Science

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Anup Kumar¹  R. C. Yadava²  Abhishek Bharti² 

[1] Department of Biostatistics and Health Informatics;Department of Statistics, Institute of Science, Banaras Hindu University

关键词: Truncation Bias;    Selection effect;    Conception Rate;    Heterogeneity;   

DOI  :  10.6339/JDS.201910_17(4).0008

学科分类：土木及结构工程学

来源: JDS

【 摘 要 】

A technique is proposed to estimate the conception rate using the distribution of first birth interval of recently married women. The proposed technique adjusts the truncation and selection effects present in a crosssectional data. Real data from NFHS-3 and NFHS-4 are used for illustration.

【 授权许可】

CC BY