THE USE OF CONDITIONAL PROBABILITIES IN CHILD MORTALITY ESTIMATION

Alejandro Aguirre

doi:10.21919/remef.v1i3.134

THE USE OF CONDITIONAL PROBABILITIES IN CHILD MORTALITY ESTIMATION

Authors

Alejandro Aguirre CEDDU, El Colegio de México, A .C.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21919/remef.v1i3.134

Keywords:

Conditional probabilities, Child mortality, Preceding Birth Technique

Abstract

The probabilities of death of relatives are not independent, as usually assumed. With information of birth histories from the World Fertility Survey it was found that exists stochastic dependence between the probabilities of death of succesive sibling. This result was used to develop an adjustment for an indirect technique for child mortality estimation: the Preceding Birth Technique.

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Published

2017-09-21

How to Cite

Aguirre, A. (2017). THE USE OF CONDITIONAL PROBABILITIES IN CHILD MORTALITY ESTIMATION. Revista Mexicana De Economía Y Finanzas Nueva Época REMEF (The Mexican Journal of Economics and Finance), 1(3). https://doi.org/10.21919/remef.v1i3.134