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Fertility trends in OECD countriesJust fertility postponement or permanent fertility decline?

Experts discussed the causes of falling birth rates at the OECD webinar on 20 June 2024. BiB Director Prof. Dr. C. Katharina Spieß and BiB Research Director Prof. Dr. Martin Bujard were also present.

Miscellaneous PublicationsSplitting of aggregated medical and demographic data

Michalski, Anatoli I.; Gorlishchev, Vasily P.; Jdanov, Dmitri, A.; Grigoriev, Pavel (2017)

Moscow, Russia, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers: 420–424

It is common in medical statistics and in demography to use data aggregated in 5-year or 10-year age groups. More detailed information by 1-year age groups are needed for precise estimations and projections. We describe two approaches for grouped data splitting. One uses a constrained quadratic optimization technique and the other builds an artificial neural net.

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