Fertility Models

Four fertility models are fitted using non-linear least squares. These are the Hadwiger, the Gamma, the Model1 and Model2, following the terminology of the following paper: Peristera P. and Kostaki A. (2007). "Modeling fertility in modern populations". Demographic Research, 16(6): 141--194. . Model based averaging is also supported.


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install.packages("fertilmodel")

1.5 by Michail Tsagris, 7 months ago


Browse source code at https://github.com/cran/fertilmodel


Authors: Michail Tsagris [aut, cre]


Documentation:   PDF Manual  


GPL (>= 2) license


Imports nnsolve, stats

Suggests Rfast, Rfast2


See at CRAN