Kerrie Nelson
Department of Statistics
University of South Carolina
Cure Fractions and Bones
In this talk I will give a brief overview as to how the topics of demography
and statistics relate to each other. I will describe two projects that I
was involved on while at the Max Planck Institute for Demography. The first
project examines which factors are influential in determining if and when a
woman has her first child in German women over the time period 1960-1990,
while accounting appropriately for childless women using an event-history
analysis model. The second project involves the examination of human
skeletons from the past to estimate the age at death, what the age
distribution of the population of interest may have been, and how such
analyses are conducted in practice.
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