Bouckaert A, Boulanger B
Institut de Statistique, Universite Catholique de Louvain, Belgium.
Hum Biol. 1997 Apr;69(2):241-51.
The methodology of potential mate analysis can be used to obtain information about the determinants of marriage. This study investigates the influence of the distance between birthplaces and of age difference between mates. We use a new method of potential mate analysis that involves a sample of potential mates simulated from a sequence of actual mates. The differences between actual and potential mates are investigated using a logistic model and by direct comparison of distributions. The logistic model gives a poor fit. The comparison of distributions reveals no significant difference in distance between birthplaces for actual and potential mates or, at any rate, no difference large enough to be demonstrated by our small sample. A marked difference is observed for marriages in which the male is slightly older. The distance between birthplaces in our sample is shorter than in Great Britain.
潜在配偶分析方法可用于获取有关婚姻决定因素的信息。本研究调查出生地之间的距离以及配偶之间年龄差异的影响。我们使用一种新的潜在配偶分析方法，该方法涉及从一系列实际配偶中模拟出的潜在配偶样本。通过逻辑模型并直接比较分布来研究实际配偶与潜在配偶之间的差异。逻辑模型拟合效果不佳。分布比较显示，实际配偶与潜在配偶在出生地距离上没有显著差异，或者无论如何，没有大到足以被我们的小样本证明的差异。在男性年龄稍大的婚姻中观察到显著差异。我们样本中的出生地距离比英国的要短。
