Point and interval forecasts of age-specific fertility rates: a comparison of functional principal component methods
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Functional data analysis; functional principal component analysis; forecast accuracy comparison; random walk with drift; random walk; ARIMA model;JEL classification:
- J11 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Demographic Trends, Macroeconomic Effects, and Forecasts
- J13 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth
- C14 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric and Statistical Methods and Methodology: General - - - Semiparametric and Nonparametric Methods: General
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-ALL-2012-05-02 (All new papers)
- NEP-DEM-2012-05-02 (Demographic Economics)
- NEP-FOR-2012-05-02 (Forecasting)
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