Infant mortality rates: time trends and fractional integration
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Infant Mortality Rates: Time Trends and Fractional Integration
This paper examines the time trends in infant mortality rates in a number of countries in the 20th century. Rather than imposing that the error term is a stationary I(0) process, we allow for the possibility of fractional integration and hence for a much greater degree of flexibility in the dynamic specification of the series. Indeed, once the linear trend is removed, all series appear to be I(...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Applied Statistics
سال: 2014
ISSN: 0266-4763,1360-0532
DOI: 10.1080/02664763.2014.980785