Global estimation of child mortality using a Bayesian B-spline bias-reduction model

DOI10.1214/14-AOAS768zbMath1454.62309arXiv1309.1602WikidataQ57200031 ScholiaQ57200031MaRDI QIDQ2258564

Leontine Alkema, Jin Rou New

Publication date: 26 February 2015

Published in: The Annals of Applied Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1309.1602

zbMATH Keywords

Bayesian hierarchical model; logarithmic pooling; Millennium Development Goal 4; penalized B-spline regression model; under-five mortality rate; United Nations Interagency Group for Child Estimation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

62-08: Computational methods for problems pertaining to statistics

62P10: Applications of statistics to biology and medical sciences; meta analysis

Related Items

Child mortality estimation incorporating summary birth history data, Space-time smoothing of complex survey data: small area estimation for child mortality, A flexible Bayesian framework to estimate age- and cause-specific child mortality over time from sample registration data, Global estimation of child mortality using a Bayesian B-spline bias-reduction model

Uses Software

• JAGS
• Gibbsit

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