A new probability model for estimation of child mortality for fixed parity

  • Authors

    • Sonam Maheshwari Department of Community Medicine, SRMS-IMS, Bhojipura, Bareilly-243 202
    • Brijesh Singh Faculty of Commerce,BHU
    • Puneet Gupta Department of Economics and Statistics, Rampur
    2015-08-24
    https://doi.org/10.14419/ijh.v3i2.5033
  • Child Mortality, Parameter Estimation, Kumaraswamy Distribution.

  • In demography, child mortality is useful as a sensitive index of a nation’s health conditions and as guided for the structuring of public health schemes. In the present study, we proposed a probability model for the number of child loss among females for a fixed parity. The application of the model proposed in the paper is illustrated through its application to the data from Madhya Pradesh from National Family Health Survey-III (NFHS-III). Finally, we show that proposed model is better fitted than the Beta-Binomial model for the data.

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    Maheshwari, S., Singh, B., & Gupta, P. (2015). A new probability model for estimation of child mortality for fixed parity. International Journal of Health, 3(2), 34-37. https://doi.org/10.14419/ijh.v3i2.5033