Braun H I
Demography. 1980 May;17(2):207-23.
Employing a family of generalized linear models for the gamma distribution, the structure of birth interval data derived from three historical populations is examined. The relative importance of such factors as current age, parity of the mother, and duration of marriage in determining the length of succeeding intervals is investigated. The results suggest that the three data sets have a common, rather simple structure and various applications of such empirical models are considered.
利用一族用于伽马分布的广义线性模型，研究了来自三个历史人口群体的生育间隔数据的结构。考察了诸如当前年龄、母亲的胎次以及婚姻持续时间等因素在决定后续间隔长度方面的相对重要性。结果表明这三个数据集具有一个共同的、相当简单的结构，并考虑了此类经验模型的各种应用。
